{"id":129437,"date":"2021-08-28T18:35:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T13:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=129437"},"modified":"2021-08-31T09:48:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T04:18:08","slug":"india-adds-557-new-species-to-its-fauna-zoological-survey-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-adds-557-new-species-to-its-fauna-zoological-survey-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"India adds 557 new species to its fauna: Zoological Survey of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G688U0B99.1&amp;imageview=0\"><b>The Hindu<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/zoological-survey-of-india\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has released a document titled \u201c <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Animal Discoveries 2020\u201d. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZSI has been publishing this document since 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Key Findings of the Document:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>India has added 557 new species to its fauna <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">animal life). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This includes 407 new species and 150 new records. With this, the number of faunal species in India has reached around 1.02 lakh species.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Among new species discovered,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> invertebrates constitute the majority when compared to vertebrates. Among invertebrates, insects dominated the most, whereas Pisces and reptiles dominated among vertebrates.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Animals can be classified <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as either vertebrates or invertebrates. <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Vertebrates<\/b> ar<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e animals that have a backbone inside their body. The major groups include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Invertebrates <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">don&#8217;t have a backbone. They either have a soft body, like worms and jellyfish, or a hard outer casing covering their body, like spiders and crabs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>State-wise: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">highest number of new species were discovered from Karnataka (66 species), followed by Kerala (51 species). Also in 2020, 46 new species were discovered from Rajasthan and 30 from West Bengal.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>State-wise based on New Records: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In terms of new records or species recorded in the country for the first time, Arunachal Pradesh had the highest (20 new records).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>New Species discovered: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the new species, some interesting species discovered in 2020 are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trimeresurus salazar<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a new species of green pit viper discovered from Arunachal Pradesh<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lycodon deccanensis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Deccan wolf snake discovered from Karnataka;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sphaerotheca Bengaluru<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a new species of burrowing frog named after the city of Bengaluru<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Xyrias anjaalai<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a new deepwater species of snake eel from Kerala;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Glyptothorax giudikyensis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a new species of catfish from Manipur; and\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clyster galateansis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a new species of scarab beetles from the Great Nicobar Biosphere.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Species recorded for the first time in India: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some newly recorded species include:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Myotis cf. frater<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a bat species are earlier known from China, Taiwan and Russia, has been reported for the first time from Uttarakhand in India;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoothera citrina gibsonhilli<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an Orange-headed thrush earlier known from southern Myanmar to south Thailand (central Malay peninsula), which was reported for the first time from India based on a collection made from the Narcondam island in the Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> India is a mega biodiverse country, with 23.39% of its geographical area under forest and tree cover. India is positioned 8th in mega biodiversity countries in the world with a 0.46 BioD index. The index is calculated by its percentage of species in each group relative to the total global number of species in each group.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu What is the News? The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has released a document titled \u201c Animal Discoveries 2020\u201d. ZSI has been publishing this document since 2007. Key Findings of the Document: India has added 557 new species to its fauna (animal life). This includes 407 new species and 150 new records.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-adds-557-new-species-to-its-fauna-zoological-survey-of-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India adds 557 new species to its fauna: Zoological Survey of India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[1355,8927,9393],"class_list":["post-129437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-biodiversity","tag-biodiversity-conservation","tag-faunal-diversity","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704935429},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}