1. Dr. PK Prasadan, Professor , Dept of Zoology, Kannur University is a member of the University Syndicate, Senate and Academic Council and is holding the additional charges of the Director of the Mananthavady Campus. He had been the Director of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell of Kannur University and a Member of the State Level Quality Assurance Cell, Govt of Kerala.
2. Dr Prasadan did his PhD on a CSIR Fellowship at the University of Calicut, India in 1992 after completing BSc and MSc degrees in Zoology. He has also been qualified the National Eligibility Test of ICAR (Govt of India) in Veterinary Parasitology. In 1993, he was awarded the CSIR Research Associateship and carried out post-doctoral research in Bangalore University for three years. In 1996 he joined Mary Matha Arts & Science College, Mananthavady, Kerala and continued to serve till 2008.
3. He had served Kannur University as Course Director to establish the Department of Zoology and to launch a post graduate programme in Applied Zoology during 2008 - 2012. He has moved back to the parent Institution in 2012 and rejoined Kannur University in 2015.
4. Dr Prasadan has published more than 50 research papers in peer reviewed international journals, that include Parasitology International, Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, Global Ecology and Conservation, Biodiversity and Conservation, Journal of Helminthology, Acta Protozoologica, Helminthologia, Protist, Current Science, Journal of Parasitic Diseases etc., apart from various other publications in national journals and contributions to various national and international seminars and conferences.
5. He has one book, SILENT SHORES, published by Penguin books, to his credit and had contributed two chapters in books having ISBN numbers.
6. He had completed three externally funded research projects (2 funded by UGC, Govt of India) and has one ongoing major research project funded by Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment, Govt of Kerala and one funded by Planning Board, Govt of Kerala.
7. He is the Chief Editor of a peer reviewed online Journal, Life Science Research
8. He is a member of the Editorial Board of European Journal of Zoological Research
9. He is a reviewer of many scientific Journals (National & International).
10. Presently He is the Chairman of the Doctoral Committees in Zoology of Kannur and MG Universities in India
11. Is an approved Research Guide of Kannur University; Two of his students were awarded with PhD degree and eight are pursuing research for PhD degree under his guidance.
12. Is a consultant on Quality in Higher Education and a mentor of many Higher Education Institutions in Kerala.

His areas of interest include:

1. Biodiversity and Conservation
2. Ecological Parasitology
3. Parasitology
4. Evolutionary Parasitology
5. Foraging Ecology

Ongoing Major Research Project:

Title: ‘Trematode parasites of Frogs of Western Ghats, Wayanad Region”         

Funding Agency: KSCSTE

Total duration: 3 years

Principal Investigator: Dr. P K Prasadan

Co Investigator: Prof (Dr) K P Janardanan

Total Amount: Rs. 20,06,991/-

Minor Research Projects Ongoing/Completed:

a)    Title: Studies on the Diversity of Freshwater Gastropods of Wayanad and their

Role as Vectors of Trematode Parasites.

Funding Agency: UGC

Total duration: 2 years (April 2005 to March 2007)

Principal Investigator: Dr. P K Prasadan.

Total Amount: Rs. 85,000/-

b)    Title: Use of Agricultural Pesticides & Its Impact on Human Health-   A Study in   

Wayanad District

Funding Agency: UGC

Total duration: 2 years

Principal Investigator: Dr. P K Prasadan

Total Amount: Rs. 75,000/-

c) Title: “Histopathology of two edible freshwater fishes infected with trematode parasites”

Funding Agency: Kannur University

Duration 1 year

PI: Dr PK PRASADAN

Total Amount: Rs.1,00,000/-

d) Title: “Helminth parasites infecting edible freshwater fishes of Western Ghats, Wayanad Region”

Funding Agency: Planning Board, Govt. of Kerala

Duration 2 years

PI: Dr PK PRASADAN

Total Amount: Rs.4,00,000/-

Research papers published:

1. K.M. Aarif, Aymen Nefla, T.R Athira, P.K Prasadan and Sabir Bin Muzaffar. The costs of migration: injuries in migratory waterbirds along the west coastof India. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences. 1-25. 080. 2021. Impact Factor: 4.219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.07.080.
2. K.M. Aarif , Aymen Nefla, M. Nasser, P.K. Prasadan, T.R. Athira and Sabir Bin Muzaffar. Multiple environmental factors and prey depletion determine declines in abundance and timing of departure in migratory shorebirds in the west coast of India. Global Ecology and Conservation (Elsevier)., 26: 2021, Impact Factor: 3.3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01518.
3. Keloth Shinad, Anshu Chaudhary , Puthanpurayil Kandambeth Prasadan, Hridaya Shanker Singh. Phylogenetic position of Tremiorchis ranarum Mehra and Negi, 1926 (Trematoda: Plagiorchiidae) with remark on this monotypic genus. Parasitology International. (Elsevier)., Impact Factor: 2.23 84: 2021. 102398. 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parint.2021.102398.
4. P.J. Jithila, A.R. Sudha Devi, P.K. Prasadan and P. Abaunza. Tetracotyle wayanadensis (Trematoda: Digenea) metacercaria – A potential parasitic castrator of the freshwater fish Aplocheilus lineatus (Valenciennes, 1846): A histopathological and temporal variation study in the South Western Ghats, India. Parasitology International. (Elsevier)., Impact Factor: 2.23. 84: 2021. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parint.2021.102408.
5. Amrutha C Peedikayil1, Smija M Kunnath1, Sruthi Rajeevan, Puthanparambil K Prasadan, Puthoor P Sudhin2, Ambalaparambil V Sudhikumar2 - Spider Diversity (Arachnida: Araneae) in Selected Sacred Groves of Kannur District, India. Acta zooloogica bulgarica, 73 (2), June 2021: 233-252 Published online 28 June 2021. Impact Factor: 0.421. http://www.acta-zoologica-bulgarica.eu/2021/002428
6. Prasadan P K., Shinad K and Sherin Chacko. Morphological deformity due to metacercaria infection – Is it to make prey more vulnerable to predation for successful parasite transmission? Current Science. Vol 119, No. 6. 2020. Impact Factor: 0.79.
7. Prasadan P K., Shinad K, Sherin Chacko and Arusha K. Studies on the life-cycle of Pleurogenoides wayanadensis Shinad and Prasadan, 2018 (Digenea: Pleurogenidae) from the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Helminthology (Cambridge Uty Press). 94, e196, 1-10 Impact Factor: 0.7. DOI:10.1017/S0022149X20000772.2020.
8. Anshu Chaudhary, Shinad Keloth, Prasadan Puthanpurayil Kandambeth and Hridaya Shanker Singh. Phylogenetic Position of Pleurogenoides species (Plagiorchiida: Pleurogenidae) from the duodenum of Indian skipper frog, Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Amphibia: Dicroglossidae) inhabiting the Western Ghats, India. Helminthologia, Impact Factor: 1.421. 57, 1: 71 – 77, 2020. DOI 10.2478/helm-2020-0006.
9. P. K. Asalatha and P. K. Prasadan. First record of the spiders Neoscona usbonga Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 and Hamataliwa pentagona Tang & Li, 2012, from India. Serket, The Arachnological Bulletin of the Middle East and North Africa. 2020. vol. 17(2): 97-100.
10. Nisha Puthiya Veettil and Prasadan Puthanpurayil Kandambeth. Digenetic trematodes of the subfamily Aphanurinae (Looss, 1899) infecting the commercially important fish, Thryssa malabarica (Clupiformes, Engraulidae) from the brackishwater bodies of Kerala, India. Brazilian Journal of Biological Science. 2019 Vol. 6, No. 14, p. 591-597 DOI: 10.21472/bjbs.061410
11. Jithila P J and Prasadan P K. Histopathology and other aspects of the Clinostomum complanatum infection in the freshwater fish, Pseudosphromenus cupanus from the South Western Ghats. Pakistan Journal of Parasitology 68; December 2019: 33-38
12. K. Arusha and P. K. Prasadan. A parapleurolophocercous cercaria and a furcocercous cercaria from the freshwater gastropods of the Western Ghats. Journal of Parasitic Diseases (Springer). 2019. Pp 1-8. DOI: 10.1007/s12639-019-01114-6.
13. PK Prasadan and Sherin Chacko. Clinostomum cupani n. sp. metacercaria infecting the freshwater fish, Pseudosphromenus cupanus from the Western Ghats, Wayanad region, India. International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies 2019; 7(4): 334-338.
14. P. K. Asalatha and P. K. Prasadan. Two new records of genus Eriovixia Archer, 1951 (Araneae: Araneidae) from the Western Ghats, Wayanad region. Serket, The Arachnological Bulletin of the Middle East and North Africa. 2019. vol. 16(4):166- 169.
15. Shinad Keloth and Prasadan Puthanpurayil Kandambeth. Digenean parasites of the water skipper, Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Anura, Dicroglossidae) of the Western Ghats, Wayanad region. Brazilian Journal of Biological Science. 2019., Vol 6; No.13, 445- 451. ISSN 2358-2731. DOI: 10.21472/bjbs.061312.
16. Jithila Puthiyakandy Janardhanan and Prasadan Puthanpurayil Kandambeth. Histopathology and other aspects of echinostome infection in freshwater fishes of the South Western Ghats, India. Brazilian Journal of Biological Science. 2019. vol. 6, No. 13, p. 483-492. ISSN 2358-2731. DOI: 10.21472/bjbs.061315.
17. Sruthi Rajeevan, Smija Moorkoth Kunnath, Thresiamma Varghese, Prasadan Puthanpurayil Kandambeth. Spider Diversity (Arachnida: Araneae) in Different Ecosystems of the Western Ghats, Wayanad Region, India. South Asian Journal of Life Sciences. 2019. 7(2): 29-39
18. Shinad Keloth and Prasadan Puthanpurayil Kandambeth. Digenean parasites of the water skipper Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Schneider, 1799) (Anura: Dicroglossidae) of the South Western Ghats, India. Brazilian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2018, v. 5, No. 11, p. 747-756. doi.org/10.21472/bjbs.051112.
19. Arusha K and P K Prasadan. Two new species of furcocercous cercariae from freshwater gastropods of the Western Ghats. Journal of Parasitic Diseases-Springer. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12639-018-1045-4. 9 pages.

20. Shinad K and Prasadan P K. Prevalence, intensity and mean abundance of digenean parasites of the water skipper, Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Anura, Dicroglossidae) of the South Western Ghats". International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 2018 Vol. 6, Issue 6, Part D. Pages: 278-284NAAS rating: 3.99.

21. Asalatha P K, Dhruba Chandra Dhali, Prasadan P K. Hamataliwa manca Tang & Li 2012 (Araneae: Oxyopidae), A Spider New to Indian Fauna. Indian Journal of Entomology. 80(4): 1696-1697 (2018) DoI No.: 10.5958/0974-8172.2018.00314.0

22. Jithila P J and P K Prasadan. Carbon Storage and Sequestration by Trees - A Study in Western Ghats Wayanad Region. Indian Journal of Ecology, 2018. 45(3): 479-482

23. Jithila P J and P K Prasadan. Prevalence, Intensity, Mean Abundance and Description of Phyllodistomum Punctati n. sp.(Digenea: Gorgoderidae) from theUrinary Bladder of Channa Punctata (Bloch) from the Western Ghats, India.

International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 2018. 6(5):1-5.

24. Jithila P J and Prasadan P K Description of Tetracotyle wayanadensis n. sp. (Digenea: Strigeidae) metacercaria infecting six species of freshwater fishes from Western Ghats, India. Journal of Parasitic Diseases-Springer. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12639-018-0988-9. (SCI Journal Rank:0.356)

25. Shinad K and Prasadan P K. "First record of Encyclometra colubrimurorum (Rudolphi, 1819) Dollfus, 1929 (Digenea: Plagiorchiidae) metacercariae from a tadpole and an adult frog of the Western Ghats, India". International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 2018 6(2): 135-139.

26. Shinad K and Prasadan P K. Two New Species of Pleurogenoides (Luhe, 1901) Travassos, 1921 (Digenea: Pleurogenidae) Infecting Two Species of Frogs of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Parasitic Diseases-Springer. January 2018. 1- 7. doi.org/10.1007/s12639-018-0978-y. (SCI Journal Rank:0.356).

27. KM Aarif, P.K Prasadan SV Abdul Hameed & Rahul Ravindran. Avian fauna of Kadalundi-Vallikkunnnu Community Reserve, West Coast of India. Stilt (Australian Wader Study Group). 2017. 71: 25-32.

28. Shinad K and Prasadan P K. Description of Pleurogenoides cyanophlycti n. Sp. (digenea: pleurogenidae) infecting Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis from the western ghats, india. . Journal of Parasitic Diseases-Springer. 2017. 1-5. DOI 10.1007/s12639-017-0971-x doi:10.1007/s12639-017-0971-x (SCI Journal Rank:0.356).

29. Shinad K and Prasadan P K. Description of Diplodiscus cyanophlycti n.sp. (Digenea: Paramphistomidae) and prevalence and intensity of two other digeneans in Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the Western Ghats, India. International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 2017. 5(6): 259-263.

30. Asalatha PK, Dhruba Chandra Dhali, Prasadan P K and Sureshan PM. New record of the jumping spider genus Pristobaeus simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Indian Journal of Arachnology. 2017. 6(1):69-71.

31. Asalatha PK, Dhruba Chandra Dhali, Prasadan P K and Sureshan PM. Study on the spiderfauna (Arane: Arachnida) of Pookode Lake Wayanad Kerala. Proceedings of the National Biodiversity Congress 2017.

32. K. M. Aarif1, Aymen Nefla, S. B. Muzaffar, K. K. Musammilu and P. K. Prasadan. Traditional fishing activities enhance the abundance of selected water bird species in a wetland in India. Avian Research-Springer (Impact Factor: 0.853). (NAAS Rating: 6.53). (2017) 8:16-25. doi 10.1186/s40657-017-0073-6

33. Aarif K M and Prasadan P K. Conservation Issues of KVCR, the Wintering Ground and Stop-over Site of Migrant Shorebirds in South West Coast of India. Biosystematica, 8 (1&2): 51-57; 2015.

34. Aarif K M and Prasadan P K Population trend of wintering gulls in the Kadalundi- Vallikkunnnu Community Reserve, Southern India. Journal of Environmental Biology (Impact Factor: 0.697). (NAAS Rating: 6.53). 36(3):597-600. 2015.

35. Aarif K M, Muzaffar S B, Babu S and P K Prasadan. Shorebird assemblages respond to anthropogenic stress by altering habitat us9e in a wetland in India. Biodiversity and Conservation-Springer (Impact Factor: 2.828). (NAAS Rating: 7.7). 23(3):727-740; 03/2014. doi 10.1007/s10531-014-0630-9

36. Aarif K M and Prasadan P K, Injured migratory shorebirds and gulls in the kadalundi- vallikkunnu community reserve, 2014, Journal of Environmental Biology. (Impact Factor: 0.684). (NAAS Rating: 7.1). 05/2014; 35(1):243-246. 2013

37. Priyanka M, Jayakumar C and Prasadan P K. Status of usage of non cultivated leafy vegetables with emphasis on traditional knowledge. Proceedings of the Kerala Environment Congress. 448-455. 2012.

38. Dileep Kumar A D, Jayakumar C, Shybu Jacob and Prasadan P K. Studies on traditional and other methods of pest management in paddy fields of Panamaram Pachayat in Wayanad District. Proceedings of the Kerala Environment Congress. 403-410. 2012.

39. Aarif K M, P K Prasadan and S Babu, Conservation significance of the Kadalundi– Vallikkunnu community Reserve, Current Science, 101 (6): 717-718, 2011. (Impact Factor: 0.905; NAAS Rating: 7.4).

40. P K Prasadan and A R Sudha Devi, Yellow grub disease in the freshwater guppy, Poecilia reticulate, Journal of Experimental Zoology, India. Vol 10(2), 2007. (NAAS Rating: 3.7).

41. Sudha Devi A R and Prasadan P K, Occurrence of Insect/Bird eating Tiger Spider, Poecilotheria regalis Pocock at Wayanad District, Kerala, India, Insect Environment. Vol 12 (3): 110. (India), 2006. (NAAS Rating: 2.9).

42. P K Prasadan and K P Janardanan, Two new species of cephaline gregarines (Apicomplexa: Cephalina) from commercial marine prawns in Kerala. Uttar Pradesh Journal of Zoology (India), 26(2): 175-179, 2006. (NAAS Rating: 3.3).

43. P K Prasad and A R Sudha Devi. Preliminary studies on the traditional bioconservation practices of tribes in Wayanad District,Kerala (India).Proceedings of the International Conference on Biodiversity and Environment. January 2002.

44. P K Prasadan and K P Janardanan, Three new species of gregarines (Apicomplexa: Sporozoea: Porosporida) in the estuarine crabs from Kerala, India, Acta Protozoologica (Poland). 40: 303-309, 2001. (Impact Factor 1.491). (NAAS Rating: 7.5).

45. P K Prasadan and K P Janardanan, Nematopsis idella sp. n. and Uradiophora cuenoti Mercier: Two cephaline gregarines from freshwater prawns in Kerala, Acta Protozoologica (Poland). 35: 239-243, 1996. (Impact Factor 1.491). (NAAS Rating: 7.5).

46. P K Prasadan and K P Janardanan, Morphology and life cycles of two species of Stenoductus Ramachandran, 1976 (Apicomplexa: Sporozoea) from the millipede Chondromorpha kelaarti (Humbert) in Kerala, India, Acta Societes, Zoologicae Bohemoslovenicae (Chzechoslovakia). 57 (3-4): 197-201, 1995. (Impact Factor 0.923).

47. P K Prasadan and K P Janardanan. Biosystematics of two new septate gregarines from spirostreptid millipedes of Kerala, India, Acta Protozoologica (Poland), 34: 311-317, 1995. (Impact Factor 1.491). (NAAS Rating: 7.5).

48. P.K. Prasadan and K.P. Janardanan, On a new species of Actinocephalid gregarine (Apicomplexa: Cephalina) from the dragonfly, Neurothemis fluvia (Drury) of Kerala, India. Fraseria (India). 1(1): 7-10, 1994.

49. P.K. Prasadan and K.P. Janardanan, Two new septate gregarines (Apicomplexa: Cephalina) Gregarina myllocerusi sp. n. and Hirmocystis curvicornis (Fabricius). Indian Journal of Parasitology (India). (Renamed: Journal of Parasitic Diseases-Springer) 17 (2): 173-178, 1993. (NAAS Rating: 4.3).

50. P.K. Prasadan and K.P. Janardanan, Stenophora tamulini sp. n. (Apicomplexa: Cephalina) from the centipede, Tamulinus ceylanicus (Attems) of Kerala, India. Acta Protozoologica (Poland). 30: 197-200, 1992. (Impact Factor 1.491). (NAAS Rating: 7.5).

51. K.P. Janardanan and P.K Prasadan, Studies on the life cycle of Pleurogenoides ovatus Rao, 1971 (Tematoda: Pleurogenetinae). Journal of Helminthology (London). 65: 43- 50, 1991. (Impact Factor 1.38). (NAAS Rating: 7.5). doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X00010427

52. K R Shanavas, P K Prasadan and K.P. Janardanan, Nematopsis rosenbergii n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Cephalina) from the brackishwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (DE MAN). Arch. Protistenkd. (Germany), (Renamed Protist), 137: 161-164, 1989. (Impact Factor 3.329).

53. PK Prasadan* and Sherin Chacko. A new species of Clinostomum (Digenea, Clinostomidae) metacercaria infecting the freshwater fish, Pseudophromenus cupanus from the Western Ghats, Wayanad region. International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 2019. 7(4): 334-338.

54. Sherin Chacko and Prasadan Puthanpurayil Kandambeth. Studies on trematode metacercariae infecting libellulid larvae from the Western Ghats, Wayanad region Journal of Parasitic Diseases. 2021. Impact factor: 1.21.

55. P.J. Jithila, P.K. Prasadan and P. Abaunza. Distribution of different species of metacercariae in two freshwater fishes: Haludaria fasciata (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) and Pseudosphromenus cupanus (Teleostei: Osphromenidae). Journal of Parasitic Diseases. 2021. Impact factor: 1.21.

Communicated for Publication

1. Nisha P. V., P. J. Jithila and P. K. Prasadan Spatio-temporal and host-dependent variations in prevalence and intensity of heterophyid (Digenea: Heterophyidae) metacercariae infection in brackish- and freshwater fishes: A comparative study. Annals of Parasitology. 2021.
2. Shinad K & Prasadan PK. 2020. On two new species of Mehraorchis Srivastava, 1934 (Digenea: Pleurogenidae) and M. ranarum infecting frogs of the South Western Ghats, India. Acta Scientiarum Animal Sciences.
3. Sruthi Rajeevan, Puthiyakandy Janardhanan Jithila and Puthanpurayil Kandambeth Prasadan. “Prevalence, intensity and mean abundance of digenean parasites of the fish Haludaria fasciata (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae) of the South Western Ghats, India ” Brazilian Journal of Biosciences. 2020.
4. Shinad K and Prasadan PK. On two new species of Mehraorchis Srivastava, 1934 (Digenea: Pleurogenidae) infecting frogs of the South Western Ghats, India. Brazilian Journal of Biosciences. 2020

Books Published:

• K M Aarif and P K Prasadan 2015 “SILENT SHORES- Population Trend of Migrant Shorebirds & Conservation Issues of Habitat” Published by PATRIDGE Publishing ( A division of Penguin Random House Co, USA) 2015. ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-4828- 6714-5 Soft cover 978-1-4828-6714-8 eBook 978-1-4828-6714-2
• Book Chapters:
  • P K Prasadan. Values of species – putting a price on biodiversity. In: Western Ghats – from Ecology to Economics. Published by Educreation Publishing. (Eds:

Shanavas P H, Sumesh A K, Haris P M). 2016. India. ISBN 9789385247583

• • Smitha NR, Shybu Jacob and Prasadan P K. Impact of pesticides and fertilizers on the diversity of dragonflies in the selected paddy fields of Wayanad. In: Biodiversity conservation challenges and prospects. Publ. ISBN 978-93-5104- 266-2. 2013. India