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{{Infobox person
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| birth_date = 1928
| birth_place = Jaidihi, [[Khulna]]
| death_date = {{death date|1994|8|12|df=y}}
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| occupation = Zoologist
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'''Benoy Krishna Tikader''' (1928-1994) was an [[India]]n [[arachnologist]] and [[zoologist]] and a leading expert on Indian [[spider]]s in his time. He worked in the [[Zoological Survey of India]] and published the ''Handbook of Indian Spiders'' in 1987. The book describes 40 [[family (biology)|families]] and 1066 [[species]] of India, many of which were described by Tikader himself. The handbook is a guide to all arachnids including [[scorpion]]s, and not just spiders. He was also a [[popular science|popular scientific]] author in his native language of [[Bengali language|Bengali]], and was the author of ''Banglar Makorsha'' (literally: "Bengal's spiders") for the layman.

==Focus on eastern India==
Working in the Zoological Survey of India based in [[Kolkata]], Tikader was especially interested in the spiders of eastern India and the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]]. Many of his nomenclatures thus bear names of places in eastern India as part of their [[scientific name|specific scientific name]] - like ''andamanensis'' (from the Andaman Islands), ''bengalensis'' (from the region of [[Bengal]], and ''dhakuriensis'' (from the neighbourhood of [[Dhakuria]], in [[Kolkata]], often based on the region of discovery or distribution.

==Honours==
He held PhD and DSc degrees from Calcutta University.<ref>Bose, Anjali (editor), 1996/2004, ''Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan'' (Biographical dictionary) Vol II, {{in lang|bn}}, p217, {{ISBN|81-86806-99-7}}</ref> A number of species were named after him by his colleagues:

Fish:
* ''[[Nemacheilus]] tikaderi'' (originally ''[[Aborichthys]] tikaderi'' ) of the family [[Balitoridae]] (Barman, 1985)

Spiders:
*''[[Nodocion]] tikaderi'' of the family Gnaphosidae (Gajbe, 1992)
*''[[Eilica]] tikaderi'' of the family [[Gnaphosidae]] (Platnick, 1976)
*''[[Drassodes]] tikaderi'' (Gajbe, 1987)
*''[[Poecilochroa]] tikaderi'' of the family Gnaphosidae (Patel, 1989)
*''[[Petrotricha]] tikaderi'' of the family Gnaphosidae (Gajbe, 1983)
*''[[Scopoides]] tikaderi'' of the family Gnaphosidae (Gajbe, 1987)
*''[[Mimetus]] tikaderi'' of the family [[Mimetidae]] (Gajbe, 1992)
*''[[Marpissa]] tikaderi'' (Biswas, 1984)
*''[[Chorizopes]] tikaderi'' of the family [[Araneidae]] (Sadana & Kaur, 1974)
*''[[Olios]] tikaderi'' of the family [[Sparassidae]] (Kundu, Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 1999)
*''[[Clubiona]] tikaderi'' of the family [[Clubionidae]] (Majumder & Tikader, 1991)
*''[[Pardosa]] tikaderi'' of the family [[Lycosidae]] (Arora & Monga, 1994)
*''[[Oxyopes]] tikaderi'' of the family [[Oxyopidae]] (Biswas & Majumder, 1995)
*''[[Theridion]] tikaderi'' (Patel, 1973)
*''[[Pistius]] tikaderi'' (Kumari & Mittal, 1999)
*''[[Xysticus]] tikaderi'' (Bhandari & Gajbe, 2001)
*''[[Storena]] tikaderi'' of the family [[Zodariidae]] (Patel & Reddy, 1989)

==Important publications==

*Tikader B K (1982), Fauna of India: Arachnid Vol 2: Spiders, Zoological Survey of India
*Tikader B K (1983), Threatened Animals of India, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta
*Tikader B K and Bastwade D (1983), Fauna of India: Arachnid Vol 3: Scorpions, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, India.
*Tikader B K (1987) [http://faunaofindia.nic.in/php/hpg/hpg_books_toc.php?book_id=004 Handbook of Indian Spiders], Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, India.
* Tikader B K and RC Sharma (December 1985), Handbook of Indian Testudines, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, India
* Tikader B K and Ramakrishna (December 1988), Role of Spinning Apparatus in Non-Orb-Weaving and Orb-Weaving Spiders from India, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, India.
* Tikader B K and Animesh Bal (January 1981), Studies on Some Orb-Weaving Spiders of the Genera Neoscona Simon and Araneus Clerck of the Family Araneidae from India, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, India

==References==
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== External links ==

* [http://faunaofindia.nic.in/php/auth.php?authid=10428&author=Tikader%2C+B.+K. Scanned publications by Tikader]
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