{"id":341786,"date":"2025-07-01T14:49:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T09:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=341786"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:49:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T09:19:35","slug":"zsi-records-683-faunal-discoveries-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/zsi-records-683-faunal-discoveries-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"ZSI records 683 faunal discoveries in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Zoological Survey of India&#8217;s flagship publication, Animal Discoveries-2024, documents 683 new faunal discoveries from across the country.<\/p>\n<h2>ZSI records 683 faunal discoveries in 2024<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_341787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-341787\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-341787\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Source-ZSI.png?resize=252%2C430&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"430\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-341787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; ZSI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Animal Discoveries-2024:<\/strong> It is Zoological Survey of India&#8217;s <strong>flagship publication<\/strong> which documents <strong>683 new faunal discoveries<\/strong> from across the country, <strong>459 of the species being new<\/strong> and <strong>224 newly recorded<\/strong> in India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>State-wise distribution: Kerala<\/strong> emerged as the <strong>top contributor<\/strong> with 101 discoveries (80 new species and 21 new records), followed by <strong>Karnataka (82), Arunachal Pradesh (72), Tamil Nadu (63) and Bengal (56).<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>In contrast, <strong>Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana and Telangana<\/strong> reported the <strong>lowest<\/strong> number of species.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Version 2.0 of the Checklist of Fauna of India:<\/strong> It is also released by ZSI which is an <strong>inventory comprising 1,05,244 species and subspecies.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The updated checklist spans 121 taxonomic groups, from protists to mammals.<\/li>\n<li>Insects \u2014 particularly beetles, moths, flies, and bees \u2014 dominate the diversity, while among vertebrates, fish is the most represented group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Animal Taxonomy Summit (ATS\u2013 2025): <\/strong>The <strong>110th celebrations of establishment of ZSI<\/strong> coincide with the <strong>third<\/strong> ATS\u2013 2025, hosted by ZSI from June 30 to July 3.\n<ul>\n<li>The summit is focused on <strong>three key themes<\/strong>\u2014<strong>taxonomy, systematics and faunal diversity &amp; conservation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Zoological Survey of India&#8217;s flagship publication, Animal Discoveries-2024, documents 683 new faunal discoveries from across the country. ZSI records 683 faunal discoveries in 2024 Animal Discoveries-2024: It is Zoological Survey of India&#8217;s flagship publication which documents 683 new faunal discoveries from across the country, 459 of the species being new and 224 newly recorded&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/zsi-records-683-faunal-discoveries-in-2024\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ZSI records 683 faunal discoveries in 2024<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-341786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341786","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\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}