Fauna of India

Fauna of India
India. Location.
Continent	Asia
Realm(s)	Indo-Malayan
Predominant harvestmen (from HarvEx)	Sclerosomatidae; Assamiidae
Diversity (Project WCO)	239 species
Indian subcontinent	Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka.

India is a country in South Asia, and it is the seventh largest country in the world, comprising the bulk of the Indian subcontinent.

Most of its belongs to Indo-Malayan realm, while the northern mountain ranges belong to Palearctic.

Predominant taxa of Indian Opiliones are Assamiidae, Biantidae and Gagrellinae.

India has the 6th most diverse opilionofauna in the world with more than 200 species recorded.

This category is for harvestmen officially recorded from India, repositories of Indian Opiliones and authors who worked on Indian opilionofauna.