{"id":11443,"date":"2023-05-25T11:50:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T06:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11443"},"modified":"2025-03-30T02:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:07:58","slug":"new-species-of-gecko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/new-species-of-gecko\/","title":{"rendered":"New Species of Gecko"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Abour new Species:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The first ever sighting of this gecko and the new species has been <strong>named as Hemidactyluspakkamalaiensis,<\/strong> after the hill where it was recorded.<\/li>\n<li>It belongs to the genus <strong>Hemidactylus <\/strong>and it is havinglarge-body size (101\u2013109 mm).<\/li>\n<li>The new species is <strong>closely related to\u00a0 graniticolus<\/strong> from which it can be <strong>distinguished by its lower femoral pores count<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>About Pakkamalai hills:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in <strong>Villupuram district of Tamilnadu<\/strong> near Gingee.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>biodiversity-rich area<\/strong> and has large mammals including <strong>leopards and sloth bears.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is an ecologically important area in <strong>the Eastern Ghats.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are the benefits of rich biodiversity?<\/h3>\n<p>Biodiversity supports human and societal needs, including food and nutrition security, energy, development of medicines and pharmaceuticals and freshwater, which together underpin good health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/puducherry\/new-species-of-gecko-recorded-in-pakkamalai-hills-in-villupuram-district\/article66888275.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>New species of gecko recorded in Pakkamalai Hills in Villupuram district<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First ever sighting of this gecko and the new species has been named as Hemidactyluspakkamalaiensis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}