{"id":66759,"date":"2019-05-11T02:14:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T20:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=66759"},"modified":"2019-05-11T02:14:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T20:44:01","slug":"new-species-of-pit-viper-found-in-arunachal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/05\/11\/new-species-of-pit-viper-found-in-arunachal\/","title":{"rendered":"New species of pit viper found in Arunachal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, May 10:<\/strong> A new species of snake has been found in Arunachal Pradesh\u2019 West Kameng district, an official said on Friday.<br \/>\nThe new species of reddish brown pit viper &#8211; a venomous snake with a unique heat-sensing system &#8211; was found in a forest in West Kameng district by a team of herpetologists led by Ashok Captain, a the forest department official said.<br \/>\nThe discovery was published in the March-April volume of the Russian Journal of Herpetology.<br \/>\nCaptain said India had four brown pit vipers &#8211; Malabar, Horseshoe, Hump-nosed and Himalayan &#8211; before the Arunachal Pradesh discovery.<br \/>\n\u201cWe don\u2019t know anything of the Arunachal pit viper\u2019s natural history as only one male has been found so far. More surveys and sightings of this species would gradually give us an idea of its habits, diet and breeding, whether it lays eggs or bears live young,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nA research team from Pune-based Indian Institute of Science Education &amp; Research found the snake while conducting biodiversity surveys in the Eaglenest region of Arunachal. A resident of the area had first shown the snake to the team in a forest patch near Ramda village.<br \/>\nComparative analyses of DNA sequences and examination of morphological features suggested that the snake belonged to a species not described before.<br \/>\nThe specimen was donated to the museum of the State Forest Research Institute in Itanagar, the official added. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, May 10: A new species of snake has been found in Arunachal Pradesh\u2019 West Kameng district, an official said on Friday. The new species of reddish brown pit viper &#8211; a venomous snake with a unique heat-sensing system &#8211; was found in a forest in West Kameng district by a team of herpetologists led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}