Bagepalli Ramachandrachar Seshachar (9 January 1908 – 25 January 1994) was a renowned zoologist and the President of

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from 1971–72. He joined the University of Mysore in 1926 as a demonstrator in Zoology and was a tenured professor until his retirement in 1960. Post-retirement, he was invited by

V. K. R. Varadaraja Rao Vijayendra Kasturi Ranga Varadaraja Rao (8 July 1908 – 25 July 1991) was an Indian economist, politician and educator. Early life and education Rao was born in a Kannada speaking Madhwa Brahmin family on 8 July 1908 at Kancheepuram in Tam ...

, the then vice-chancellor of

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, to head the Zoology department where he served until 1971. Raorchestes charius and Gegeneophis seshachari are named after him and the etymology noted his pioneering studies concerning the

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, reproductive biology, and natural history of Indian

caecilians Caecilians (; ) are a group of limbless, vermiform (worm-shaped) or serpentine (snake-shaped) amphibians with small or sometimes nonexistent eyes. They mostly live hidden in soil or in streambeds, and this cryptic lifestyle renders caecilians ...

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