Prof. Pradip Kachhiya
- Head of Department ( Zoology )
- Indian Science Congress Member
Contact Details
- Mobile: 8200055046
- Email: pradip.kachhiya@dsuni.ac.in
- Office Phone: 2610055
Qualification
- Ph.D, Saurashtra University, 2022
- M.Sc, Bhavnagar University, 2013
- B.Sc, SAURASHTRA UNIVERSITY, 2011
Work Experience
- Teaching: 07 Year 6 Months
- Research Expirience – 4.5 Year
Specilization
- Wildlife Biology
- Marine Biology
- Taxonomy & Biodiversity
- Applied Zoology& Field Biology
- Genetics & Molecular Biology
- Taxonomy
- Genetics
- Wildlife Biology
- Taxonomy & Biodiversity
- Applied Zoology& Field Biology
- Genetics & Molecular Biology
- Toxicology& Biotechnology
- Genetics
- Cell Biology & Histology
- Animal Ecology & Wildlife
- Biotechnology
- Marine Biology
- 1) JRF and SRF in UGC- CAS Aride zone Biology in LRK Gujarat.
- 2) Best Poster Prize in International Conference. Tropical Ecology Congress, Tropical Ecosystem in a Changing World”
1) Kachhiya, P., Poriya, P., Raval, J. & Kundu, R. (2015). Hermit crab species of the genus Clibanarius (Crustacean, Decapoda, Diogenedae) from western India coast with two new records. Journal of Threatened Taxa, (Published)
2) Kachhiya, P., Raval, J., Poriya, P. & Kundu R. (2016). Distribution of Newly Recorded Intertidal Hermit Crabs along Gujarat Coast, International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences 42 (4): 327-332, 2016 (Published)
3) Poriya, P., Vakani, B., Chaudhari, B., Kachhiya, P., & Kundu, R. (2015). Diversity and first record of heterobranch gastropods (opisthobranchs) from Saurashtra coast of Kathiawar Peninsula, India. Marine Biodiversity Records. Volume 8, pp,-1-7. (Published)
4) Raval, J. V., Kachhiya, P., Poriya, P. & Kundu, R. (2015) Population Ecology of Intertidal Hermit Crab Diogenes avarus (Decapoda: Anomura) from a Muddy Coast of Western India. Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp.-143-146. (Published)
5) Raval, J. V., Kachhiya, P., Poriya, P. & Kundu, R. (2016) “Shell Utilization of Intertidal Hermit Crabs and its Role in The Population Sustainability in a Muddy Coast of Western India”. Journal of Marine Biology. Hindawi Publishing Corporation. (Published)
6) Agnikumar H. Vyas, Pratik A. Siddhapara, Megha R. Chovatia, Pradip D. Kachhiya, Nikunj R. Dand and Sanjay K. Teraiya (2023) Animal-VehicalCollosion Near Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary: Junagadh-Bilkha Highway, Gujarat, India. Indian Journal of Natural Science, Vol.14, Issue 78, 56189-56197
7) P Kachhiya, P Vadher, I Beleem (2025) First record of the symbiotic crab Harrovia elegans De Man, 1887 from west coast of India, Journal of Fisheries 13 (3), 133402-133402
8) Altoum, A., Abbood, R. S., Abbas al-Khafaji, Z., Kachhiya, P., Menon, S. V., Sunitha, S., … & Noorizadeh, H. (2025). Directed self-assembled SnS quantum dots in mesoporous SiO₂ frameworks for ultrasensitive tumour-derived exosome detection. Materials Technology, 40(1), 2528776.
Conference Publications
1) International conference on Ecosystem Conservation Climate Change and Sustainable Developmental (ECOCASED 2013) 3rd-5th, October 2013 Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
2) Biodiversity Asia 2012 – Sciences, Policy, and Governance, the 2nd Asia Regional Conference of the Society for Conservation Biology, 7th -10th, August, 2012 Bangalore, India.
3) International training workshop on “Taxonomy of Crustacea”(ITWOTAC 2016), 20-23 September 2016, organised by Department of Aquatic Biology & fisheries, University of Kerala, Kariyavattom, Thiruvananthapuram – Kerala India. 4) A two day national workshop on “Impact of the climate change on coastal Ecosystem (ICE)” 9th and 10th June 2016, organized by CSIR-NISCAIR, New Delhi, India. 5) A two day national workshop on “ Applied Statistics for Bioinformatics Using R” 19th and 20th February 2016, organized by the department of Computer Sciences and Engineering, Department of Biotechnology, ministry of Science & Technology Government of India, Bannari Amman institute of technology, Sathyamangalam, Chennai.