{"id":34877,"date":"2018-10-31T14:17:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T08:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34877"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:17:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T08:47:20","slug":"western-ghats-throw-up-a-new-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/western-ghats-throw-up-a-new-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Ghats throw up a new snake:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.in\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiwxqD57MbWAhXDvY8KHQl9CIEQqOcBCCUwAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fsci-tech%2Fenergy-and-environment%2Fwestern-ghats-throw-up-a-new-snake%2Farticle19764405.ece&amp;usg=AFQjCNE0J_RtqdIOgEfnU_3QRh_vhBqdUg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Western Ghats throw up a new snake<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New species of snake has been found in western ghats.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists have described a new species of non-venomous endemic snake, Aquatic Rhabdops, from the northern Western Ghats.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b> Aquatic Rhabdops<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The three-foot-long nocturnal snake hunts for prey underwater,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">scientist named the new species after its aquatic nature since the adults are mostly associated with freshwater forest streams and juveniles are seen in water-logged areas, mostly on rocky plateaus,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Rhabdops aquaticus, was till now considered a variant of the Olive Forest Snake, first described in 1863. However, the new study confirms that the Aquatic Rhabdops is a different one: they sport not only different colours and patterns, but also vary in other features of size, shape and structure, and also genetic make-up.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Endemicity <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">all Rhabdops snakes are endemic to India. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Olive Forest Snake Rhabdops olivaceus is found only in the Western Ghats<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the bi-coloured Forest Snake Rhabdops bicolor lives in a few localities in the northeast. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Aquatic Rhabdops too is found only in the laterite plateaus of the northern Western Ghats in Goa, southern Maharashtra and northern Karnataka, in areas facing severe human pressures.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Ghats throw up a new snake:\u00a0 Context New species of snake has been found in western ghats. Scientists have described a new species of non-venomous endemic snake, Aquatic Rhabdops, from the northern Western Ghats. Aquatic Rhabdops The three-foot-long nocturnal snake hunts for prey underwater, scientist named the new species after its aquatic nature since&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/western-ghats-throw-up-a-new-snake\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Western Ghats throw up a new snake:\u00a0<\/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-34877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704816655},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34877","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=34877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}