Sources and credits

The rules

1. A government list, report or journal paper places the species in Rajasthan, or a camera-trap study recorded it in Jaipur.
2. It is native to India. Introduced or invasive species and domestic animals are never listed.
3. Every fact is tied to a numbered source and tagged with the place it was verified for: Rajasthan, Jaipur, India or the world.
4. Whatever could not be sourced is shown as left out, never filled by guessing.
5. Every photograph shows its creator, platform, licence and place. Photos we cannot credit correctly are not used.

Global conservation status comes from the IUCN Red List. Native range for plants comes from Kew's Plants of the World Online, which says a plant is native to India but not that it grows wild in Rajasthan, so Rajasthan evidence comes from the sources below.

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All sources

1. Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board. List of Rare, Endangered and Threatened Animals of Rajasthan (39 animals, with localities) (government). Official list, published as a PDF.
2. Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board. List of Rare, Endangered and Threatened Plants of Rajasthan (55 plants) (government). Official list, published as a PDF.
3. Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board. Critically Endangered Plant Species of Economic Value (8 plants, undated) (government). The Board's page says this list was still under consideration at the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
4. Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board. Biodiversity of Rajasthan (species counts), page updated 18 August 2026 (government). The page does not say where its counts come from, so they are shown as the Board's figures.
5. Wildlife Institute of India (2020). Conserving Great Indian Bustard Landscapes through Scientific Understanding and Participatory Planning. Final report (government). Five-year project with the Rajasthan Forest Department.
6. Joshi M, Tatu A, Hawlena D, Raubenheimer D, Thaker M (2026). Royal Society Open Science 13(1), rsos.251690. Diet of the Indian spiny-tailed lizard in the Thar Desert (journal). Peer reviewed. Field site: Jorbeer-Gadhwala Conservation Reserve, Bikaner.
7. Wildlife Institute of India, National Mission for Clean Ganga. Gharial (priority species page, updated 27 July 2023) (government). Names the Chambal and Rajasthan.
8. Chouhan R, Panwar C (2021). Diversity of Gasteromycetes in Rajasthan, India-I. Studies in Fungi 6(1): 175-187 (journal). Peer reviewed. Describes four Podaxis species from Rajasthan.
9. Singh J, Rathore K, Gehlot P, Singh J, Pathak R, Singh SK (2025). Species Diversity of Macrofungi from Aravalli Mountain Range Forest of Rajasthan. Kavaka 61(3): 61-77 (journal). Peer reviewed. DNA and shape study in three Aravalli sanctuaries.
10. Arigela RK, Kathula T, Kumar R, Deroliya PK, Jeevith S, Singh RK (2024). Tephrosia purpurea, the potential nectar source for the butterflies in Jodhpur. Studia Naturae 9(1): 85-108 (journal). Peer reviewed. Only the abstract was read.
11. Kumbhojkar S, Mahabal A, Rakholia S, Yosef R (2024). Avian and Mammalian Diversity and Abundance in Jhalana Reserve Forest, Jaipur, India. Animals 14(20): 2939 (journal). Peer reviewed camera-trap study, 2017 to 2019, inside Jaipur.
12. Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India (April 2006). Action Plan for Vulture Conservation in India (government). Government plan.
13. Rajasthan Foundation, Government of Rajasthan. Aapno Sanskriti: Khejri, State Tree of Rajasthan (government). Four-page booklet.
14. Ali R et al. (2024). Microbiome properties in the root nodules of Prosopis cineraria. Microbiology Spectrum 12(6): e03617-23 (journal). Peer reviewed. The trees were sampled in the United Arab Emirates, not Rajasthan.
15. Yadav RP, Yadav PK, Chhipa BR (2008). Litter dynamics and soil properties under different tree species in a semi-arid region of Rajasthan, India. Agroforestry Systems (journal). Peer reviewed. Only the abstract was available.
16. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Plants of the World Online (native ranges) (database). Shows native to India. It does not say a plant grows wild in Rajasthan.
17. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
18. Crop and livestock depredation caused by wild animals in protected areas: the case of Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India. Environmental Conservation (journal). Peer reviewed. Only the abstract was available.
19. Group number and composition of Hanuman langur Presbytis entellus in Jaipur, India (1987), and a 1987 to 1988 density study of langurs and rhesus macaques in Jaipur (journal). Peer reviewed notes. Only abstracts were available. The figures are old.

Image credits

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Photographs on Government of Rajasthan sites were not used, because their reuse terms for photographs are not stated.