{"id":257663,"date":"2023-08-28T20:12:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T14:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=257663"},"modified":"2023-08-28T20:12:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T14:42:49","slug":"new-specie-genus-of-snakes-discovered-in-western-ghats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-specie-genus-of-snakes-discovered-in-western-ghats\/","title":{"rendered":"New specie, genus of snakes discovered in Western Ghats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cNew specie, genus of snakes discovered in Western Ghats\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0published in <\/span><b>Hindustan Times on 25th August 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team of researchers has recently discovered a new genus and species of colubrid snakes in Western Ghats. They have named it \u2018<\/span><b>Sahyadriophis uttaraghati\u2019.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Sahyadriophis uttaraghati?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sahyadriophis uttaraghati is a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new genus and species of colubrid snakes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 Note: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Colubrid\u00a0 is the largest snake family.It contains approximately 2000 species.Many colubrids are technically considered venomous but very few are considered dangerous to humans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Named after: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been named Sahyadriophis, a combination of the Sanskrit word for the Western Ghats \u2018Sahyadri\u2019 and the Greek word for snakes \u2018Ophis\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Found in:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is found in the northern parts of the Western Ghats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Features: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These snakes are mostly active during monsoons and are often found near streams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Their diet primarily consists of frogs and their eggs.They are gentle in nature and rarely bite when handled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The juveniles bear a big blotch or a collar mark on the nape, which distempers as the animal grows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 They can be differentiated from its southern counterpart\u2014Sahyadriophis beddomei (Beddome\u2019s Sahyadri keelback)\u2014by a longer tail and higher number of scales on the tail&#8217;s underside, known as subcaudals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cNew specie, genus of snakes discovered in Western Ghats\u201d \u00a0published in Hindustan Times on 25th August 2023 What is the News? A team of researchers has recently discovered a new genus and species of colubrid snakes in Western Ghats. They have named it \u2018Sahyadriophis uttaraghati\u2019. What is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-specie-genus-of-snakes-discovered-in-western-ghats\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New specie, genus of snakes discovered in Western Ghats<\/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":[1566,4182,9,11834],"tags":[10595],"class_list":["post-257663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","category-species-in-news","tag-hindustan-times","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703233646},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257663","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=257663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}