Dr Dinazarde Raheem

Senior Lecturer

draheem@as.rjt.ac.lk
+94252266128

Education

PhD in Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK (2006)

BSc (Hons) in Biology, Department of Biology, Imperial College London, UK (1997)

Professional Qualification

Certificate Course in Teaching in Higher Education – Rajarata University of Sri Lanka (2022)

Memberships of Professional Bodies/Associations

Research Interests

Exploring biological diversity lies at the heart of what motivates me as a biologist, and the land snail fauna of South Asia is the focus of my research. My current research interests range from systematics and taxonomy to community ecology and palaeoecology. I have a long-standing interest in collections; this includes collections-based research, capacity building, collections development and curation of historical and recent collections.

Ongoing projects include taxonomic and systematic research on selected Western Ghats–Sri Lankan land-snail taxa, a systematic list of the Sri Lankan land-snail fauna and research on the fossil snail faunas of Sri Lankan Pleistocene cave sites.

Teaching Courses

Appointments

Editorial Work

Editor-in-chief, Journal of Molluscan Studies

https://academic.oup.com/mollus

Research associateships

Scientific Associate, Natural History Museum, London, UK

Publications

Books/ Book Chapters

Raheem, D.C., Taylor, H.T., Ablett, J., Preece, R.C., Aravind, N.A. and Naggs, F. 2014. A systematic revision of the land snails of the Western Ghats of India. Tropical Natural History, Supplement 4. 294 pp.

Naggs, F. and Raheem, D. 2000. Land snail diversity in Sri Lanka. Natural History Museum, London, UK. 230 pp.

Research Articles

Bhosale, A.R., Saadi, A.J., Wade, C.M., Thackeray, T.U., Tamboli, A.S., Kadam, S.K., Muley, D.V. & Raheem, D.C. 2021. Varadia, a new helicarionoidean semi-slug genus from India’s Western Ghats (Stylommatophora: Helicarionoidea). European Journal of Taxonomy, 757: 50–79.

Watling, J.I., Arroyo-Rodríguez, V., Pfeifer, M., Baeten, L., Banks-Leite, C., Cisneros, L.M., Fang, R., Hamel-Leigue, A.C., Lachat, T., Leal, I.R., Lens, L., Possingham, H.P., Raheem, D.C., Ribeiro, D.B., Slade, E.M., Urbina-Cardona, J.N., Wood, E.M. and Fahrig, L. 2020. Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies. Ecology Letters, 23: 674–681.

Bhosale, A.R., Muley, D.V., Yadav, O.V. & Raheem, D.C. 2019. Re-description of the land snail Eurychlamys platychlamys (Blanford, 1880) (Eupulmonata: Helicarionidae) from the Western Ghats of India. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 148: 117–128.

Chase, J.M., Liebergesell, M., Sagouis, A., May, F., Blowes, S.A., Berg, Å., Bernard, E., Brosi, B.J., Cadotte, M.W., Cayuela, L., Chiarello, A.G., Cosson, J-F., Cresswell, W., Dami, F.D., Dauber, J., Dickman, C.R., Didham, R.K., Edwards, D.P., Farneda, F.Z., Gavish, Y., Gonçalves-Souza, T., Guadagnin, D.L., Henry, M., López-Baucells, A., Kappes, H., MacNally, R., Manu, S., Martensen, A.C., McCollin, D., Meyer, C.F.J., Neckel-Oliveira, S., Nogueira, A., Pons, J-M., Raheem, D.C., Ramos, F.N, Rocha, R., Sam, K., Slade, E., Stireman III, J.O., Struebig, M.J., Vasconcelos, H. & Ziv, Y. 2019. FragSAD: a meta-database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragmentation studies. Ecology, 100: e02861.

Cole, M. L., Raheem, D. C. and Villet, M. H. 2018. Molecular phylogeny of Chondrocyclus (Gastropoda: Cyclophoridae), a widespread genus of sedentary, restricted-range snails. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 131: 193–210.

Raheem, D.C., Schneider, S., Böhme, M., Vasiliyan, D. and Prieto, J. 2018. The oldest known cyclophoroidean land snails (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoroidea) from Tropical Asia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 16: 1301–1317.

Raheem, D.C., Breugelmans, K.,Wade, C.M., Naggs, F.C. and Backeljau, T. 2017. Exploring the shell-based taxonomy of the Sri Lankan rainforest snail Corilla H. and A. Adams, 1855 (Pulmonata: Corillidae) using mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107: 609–618.

Pfeifer, M., Lefebvre, V., Gardner, T.A., Arroyo-Rodriguez, V., Baeten, L., Banks-Leite, C., Barlow, J., Betts, M.G., Brunet, J., Cerezo, A., Cisneros, L.M., Collard, S., D’Cruze, N., da Silva Motta, C., Duguay, S., Eggermont, H., Eigenbrod, F., Hadley, A.S., Hanson, T.R., Hawes, J.E., Heartsill Scalley, T., Klingbeil B.T., Kolb, A., Kormann, U., Kumar, S., Lachat, T., Lakeman, Fraser P., Lantschner, V., Laurance, W.F., Leal, I.R., Lens, L., Marsh, C.J., Medina-Rangel, G.F., Melles, S., Mezger, D., Oldekop, J.A., Overal, W.L., Owen, C., Peres, C.A., Phalan, B., Pidgeon, A.M., Pilia, O., Possingham, H.P., Possingham, M.L., Raheem, D.C., Ribeiro, D.B., Ribeiro Neto, J.D., Robinson, W.D., Robinson, R., Rytwinski, T.4, Scherber, C., Slade, E.M., Somarriba, E., Stouffer, PC., Struebig, M.J., Tylianakis, J.M., Tscharntke, T., Tyre A.J., Urbina Cardona, J.N., Vasconcelos, H.L., Wearn, O., Wells K., Willig, M.R., Wood, E., Young, R.P., Bradley, A,V., and Ewers, R.M. 2014. BIOFRAG – a new database for analysing Biodiversity responses to forest fragmentation. Ecology and Evolution, 4: 1524–1537.

Raheem, D.C., Naggs, F., Chimonides, P.D.J., Preece, R.C. and Eggleton, P. 2009. Fragmentation and pre-existing species turnover determine land-snail assemblages of tropical rain forest. Journal of Biogeography, 36: 1923–1938.

Raheem, D.C., Naggs, F., Preece, R.C., Mapatuna, Y., Kariyawasam, L. and Eggleton, P. 2008. Structure and conservation of Sri Lankan land-snail assemblages in fragmented lowland rainforest and village home gardens. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45: 1019–1028.

Pethiyagoda, R., Gunatilleke, N, de Silva, M., Kotagama, S., Gunatilleke, S., de Silva, P., Meegaskumbura, M., Fernando, P., Ratnayeke, S., Jayawardene, J., Raheem, D., Benjamin, S. and Ilangakoon, A. 2007. Science and biodiversity: the predicament of Sri Lanka. Current Science, 92: 426–427.

Raheem, D. and Naggs, F. 2006. The Sri Lankan endemic semi-slug Ratnadvipia (Limacoidea: Ariophantidae) and a new species from southwestern Sri Lanka. Systematics and Biodiversity, 4: 99-126.

Gower, D.J., Bahir, M.M., Mapatuna, Y., Pethiyagoda, R., Raheem, D. and Wilkinson, M. 2005. Molecular phylogenetics of Sri Lankan Icthyophis (Amphibia: Gymnophonia: Icthyophidae), with discovery of a cryptic species. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement no. 12: 153–161.

Naggs, F., Raheem, D., Ranawana, K. and Mapatuna, Y. 2005. The Darwin Initiative Project on Sri Lankan land snails: patterns of diversity in Sri Lankan rainforest. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement no. 12: 303–309.

Naggs, F. and Raheem, D. 2005. Sri Lankan snail diversity: faunal origins and future prospects. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement no. 68: 11–29.

Vane-Wright, R.I., Raheem, D.C., Cieslak, A. and Vogler, A.P. 1999. Evolution of the mimetic African swallowtail butterfly Papilio dardanus: molecular data confirm relationships with P. phorcas and P. constantinus. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 66: 215–229.