{"id":28941,"date":"2018-10-24T15:51:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28941"},"modified":"2018-10-24T15:51:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:21:23","slug":"environmental-day-bouquet-539-species-discovered-in-india-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/environmental-day-bouquet-539-species-discovered-in-india-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Day Bouquet: 539 species discovered in India in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Environmental Day Bouquet: 539 species discovered in India in 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>According to publications from the zoological survey of India (ZSI) and Botanical Survey of India (BSI), in 2017, 539 species have been discovered in India.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><u>Publications:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Zoological Survey of India: Animal Discoveries, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Botanical Survey of India: Plant discoveries, 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><u>Fauna Discoveries:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Total: 300 species<\/li>\n<li>241 vertebrates, includes 27 species of fish, 18 of amphibians and 12 of reptiles<\/li>\n<li>Important discoveries: Fossil reptilian species- Shringasaurus indicus; frog species and snake species<\/li>\n<li>India accounts for 6.45% of total world faunal species<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><u>Flora discoveries:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Total 239 species includes 148 flowering plants, 108 macro and microfungi, 4 pteridophytes, 6 bryophytes, 17 lichens, 39 algae, 30 microbes<\/li>\n<li>20 species of balsams, 3 species of each wild Musa (banana) and jamun also discovered<\/li>\n<li>India accounts for 11.4% of the world fauna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><u>Discoveries across regions<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest discoveries made in Western Ghats and Himalayas<\/li>\n<li>Western Ghats: 19% of plant species and 37% of animal species<\/li>\n<li>Himalayas: 35% of plant species and 18% of animal species<\/li>\n<li>Among states, Kerala recorded the highest number of discoveries, followed by Tamil Nadu ,\u00a0 West Bengal recorded 27 plant species discoveries and 45 animal species discoveries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental Day Bouquet: 539 species discovered in India in 2017 News: According to publications from the zoological survey of India (ZSI) and Botanical Survey of India (BSI), in 2017, 539 species have been discovered in India. Important Facts: Publications: Zoological Survey of India: Animal Discoveries, 2017 Botanical Survey of India: Plant discoveries, 2017 Fauna Discoveries:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/environmental-day-bouquet-539-species-discovered-in-india-in-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Environmental Day Bouquet: 539 species discovered in India in 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704888656},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28941","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}