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Zeeshan A. Mirza

Zeeshan Ayaz Mirza (born 13th March 1988) is an Indian Naturalist, Arachnologist, and Herpetologist. Born in Mumbai, he began his work on biodiversity documentation of areas adjoining his house and the Sanjay Gandhi National Park where he discovered several new species of mygalomorph spiders, scorpions, and even lizards. He completed his Bachelors of Science with Zoology as the core subject from Bhavans College, Mumbai and later moved to the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore for a masters in Wildlife Biology and Conservation. He currently works at the National Centre for Biological Sciences on projects related to documentation of reptiles and arachnids of India with a large focus on molecular systematics. His work led to the description of the several new species of lizards, snakes, spiders, and scorpions.

Species described:

1. ''Lychas aareyensis

2. Orthochirus bastawadei

3. Buthoscorpio rayalensis

4. Heterometrus telanganaensis

5. Heterometrus atrascorpius

6. Neoscorpiops maharashtraensis

7. Scorpiops spitiensis

8. Heterophrictus aareyensis

9. Heterophrictus ravenii

10. Neoheterophrictus amboli

11. Neoheterophrictus smithii

12. Sahydroaraneus hirstii

13. Idiops rubrolimbatus

14. Idiops kaasensis

15. Tigidia rutilofronis

16. Tigidia nilgiriensis

17. Scalidognathus tigrinus

18. Scalidognathus nigriaraneus

19. Thrigmopoeus psychedalicus

20. Poecilotheria chaojii

21. Cnemaspis girii

22. Hemidactylus acanthopholis

23. Eublepharis satpuraensis

24. Thaicharmus guptai

25. Chiromachetes sahyadriensis

26. Cyrtodctylus varadgiri

27. Wallaceophis gujaratensis

28. Orientothele alyratus

29. Hemidactylus chipkali

30. Tigidia konkanensis

31. Hemidactylus kangerensis

32. Sitana attenboroughii

33. Liocheles schalleri''