New Delhi: The researchers have found a new cascade frog and named it after the Hill Adi, who is home to the Adi tribe, a group of indigenous people from the Himalayan region in the state of India Pradesh.
The Indian and American biologist team of the Wildlife Institute of India, University of Delhi (India), and Natural Natural Science Museum of Natural Carolina (US) have found a new species of Cascade Frog from Adi Hills, India.
Historically, this region is also known as Abor Hills.
The discovery was made when a biologist was investigating a group of middle cascade frogs to large (scientifically belonging to the General Amolops) from Northeast India for the past five years.
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“Cascade Frogs” is named so because of their preferences for small waterfalls or cascade in a flowing hill flow.
AMOLOPS genus is one of the largest groups of RANID frogs (Ranidae family) with currently 73 species widely known throughout northeast and North India, Nepal, Bhutan, China, through Indochina, to the Malay Peninsula.
New species are identified based on various criteria, such as external morphology, DNA, and call patterns.
The study also resolved the confusion of a century century taxonomic about the identity of other cascade frog species, Amolops Monticola, which was explained by Sikkim Himalaya 150 years ago.
The discovery has an important implication in taxonomy and geographical distribution of several other members of this group found in India and Chinese neighboring areas.
These findings are published in scientific articles titled ‘Filogenetic Position of Cascade Cascade which is less recognized by Amolops Monticola (Ranidae) and a description of new species closely related to Northeast India “in the Journal of Natural History, London.
Complete publications available at: https: // doi..org/10.1080/00222933.2021.1946185.
“This study once again the agreement how little is known about the most threatened animal groups, frogs, in Northeast India.
Many frogs in this region are reported to occur widely but have a relatively small geographical range and require special attention to their conservation before Expellent forever.
Northeast India is a species treasure that is still unknown by science “, said Professor SD Biju from the University of Delhi, the author of the appropriate article.
“The new species was discovered when visiting the EXPEDITION OF ADI Century Century in 2018 and named after the Adi tribe in Arunachal Pradesh where this species lived mainly during the post-season season,” Abhijit Das, from the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun.