{"id":29612,"date":"2018-10-26T11:28:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29612"},"modified":"2018-10-26T11:28:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:58:52","slug":"new-snake-found-in-western-ghats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-snake-found-in-western-ghats\/","title":{"rendered":"New snake found in Western Ghats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-life\/new-snake-found-in-western-ghats\/article23765374.ece\">New snake found in Western Ghats<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just 40 cm long and iridescent brown, Bhupathy\u2019s shieldtail is the latest addition to the snake fauna of the Western Ghats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bhupathy\u2019s shieldtail has been observed only in the Anaikatty Hills of Tamil Nadu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uropeltis bhupathyi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The snake, currently observed only in the forests of the Anaikatty hills in Tamil Nadu\u2019s Coimbatore district, has been named\u00a0<em>Uropeltis bhupathyi<\/em>\u00a0, after the late herpetologist S. Bhupathy, for his contributions to the field<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key features<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The reptile belongs to a family of snakes found only in peninsular India and Sri Lanka<\/li>\n<li>They are non-venomous, burrowing and mostly earthworm-eating, and are called shieldtails after the large, flat tips of their tails, which make them appear almost sliced off<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Distinguishing feature<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new species had more than 200 scales<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shieldtail species in number<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The discovery takes the number of known species of shieldtails in India to 41<\/li>\n<li>The country is home to more than 300 snake species.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New snake found in Western Ghats What has happened? Just 40 cm long and iridescent brown, Bhupathy\u2019s shieldtail is the latest addition to the snake fauna of the Western Ghats. Location Bhupathy\u2019s shieldtail has been observed only in the Anaikatty Hills of Tamil Nadu Uropeltis bhupathyi\u00a0 The snake, currently observed only in the forests of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-snake-found-in-western-ghats\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New snake found in Western Ghats<\/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-29612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704776244},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29612","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=29612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}