{"id":123073,"date":"2026-09-06T14:48:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=123073"},"modified":"2026-09-06T18:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T13:25:48","slug":"gegeneophis-chandgadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gegeneophis-chandgadi\/","title":{"rendered":"Gegeneophis chandgadi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Gegeneophis chandgadi Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists have discovered a new species of legless, worm-like amphibian from a rural village in Maharashtra and named it as Gegeneophis chandgadi.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Gegeneophis chandgadi<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>a caecilian species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> discovered in the state of <\/span><b>Maharashtra.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Caecilians <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">may look like oversized earthworms or small snakes and this group of amphibians live <\/span><b>mostly underground.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>species name, chandgadi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is a tribute to the local culture.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>named after the \u2018Chandgadi language,\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a distinct dialect of Marathi spoken by the people living in the region where the animal was found.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The researchers noted that the northern Western Ghats is a hotspot for these elusive animals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Features<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a slender, <\/span><b>flesh-colored body and a specific pattern of rings<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (called annuli) that encircle its trunk.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has <\/span><b>primary rings along its entire length<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, its secondary rings are concentrated only on the back half of its body.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is legless, worm-like amphibian.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>What are Caecilians?<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are <\/span><b>tropical amphibians<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that look like large worms or slick snakes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have no arms or legs, and their shiny skin is ringed <\/span><b>with skin folds called annuli.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/caecilians\/\" target=\"_blank\">caecilians<\/a> are burrowers,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> living in a network of tunnels underground. A hard, thick, pointy skull helps these amphibians dig in soft dirt.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most caecilians inhabit <\/span><b>moist tropical and subtropical regions of<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> South and Central America, South and Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Almost all caecilians are terrestrial, but they are elusive as they spend the majority of their lives underground.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/researchmatters.in\/news\/new-species-of-rare-underground-dwelling-caecilian-identified-in-a-backyard-in-maharashtra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gegeneophis chandgadi is a new caecilian species from Maharashtra, named after the Chandgadi dialect spoken in the region. Read more about Gegeneophis chandgadi, Distribution, Features, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":123160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10062,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-123073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-gegeneophis-chandgadi","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123073","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123073"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123163,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123073\/revisions\/123163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}