{"id":90533,"date":"2020-01-16T00:39:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T19:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=90533"},"modified":"2020-01-16T00:39:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T19:09:06","slug":"three-new-frog-species-discovered-in-arunachal-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/01\/16\/three-new-frog-species-discovered-in-arunachal-pradesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Three new frog species discovered in Arunachal Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SHILLONG, Jan 15:<\/strong> Three new species of tiny frogs have been discovered in Arunachal Pradesh&#8217;s Lower Subansiri district by scientists of Zoological Survey of India, according to a recently published journal.<br \/>\nThe frogs are so small in size that one can sit on a coin, ZSI scientist Bhaskar Saikia told PTI. The new species discovered from Talle Valley Wildlife Sanctuary (WLS) have been named as &#8216;Liurana himalayana&#8217;, &#8216;Liurana indica&#8217; and &#8216;Liurana minuta&#8217;, he said.<br \/>\nThe specimens of the new frog species were collected by Bikramjit Sinha, another scientist of ZSI in Itanagar during 2015-16 as part of the documentation of faunal diversity in the protected area.<br \/>\nA study, co-authored by Saikia and Sinha, has been published in a science journal, the Records of the Zoological Survey of India&#8217;, which confirmed that the species are new discoveries.<br \/>\nEarlier, Saikia and Sinha had also found a rare frog species, Megophrys pachyproctus, from Tale Valley Wildlife Sanctuary. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHILLONG, Jan 15: Three new species of tiny frogs have been discovered in Arunachal Pradesh&#8217;s Lower Subansiri district by scientists of Zoological Survey of India, according to a recently published journal. The frogs are so small in size that one can sit on a coin, ZSI scientist Bhaskar Saikia told PTI. The new species discovered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90533","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=90533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}