{"id":16307,"date":"2023-10-26T11:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T05:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16307"},"modified":"2025-04-04T08:23:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T02:53:26","slug":"alcalus-fontinalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/alcalus-fontinalis\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Alcalus Fontinalis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Alcalus Fontinalis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0newly\u00a0discovered\u00a0species of frog.<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0discovered\u00a0in\u00a0the Namdapha Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>The frog appeared to be a\u00a0mix of a bush frog and a water frog.<\/li>\n<li>The researchers used multiple lines of evidence using morphological, osteological, and molecular analysis, revealing they are no ordinary frogs but\u00a0members of a dwarf mountain frog of the genus Alcalus, hitherto\u00a0unknown from India.<\/li>\n<li>It was formally\u00a0named Alcalus fontinalis,\u00a0meaning \u201cspring or fountain,\u201d\u00a0referencing the tiny streams or brooks\u00a0where the frog was found.<\/li>\n<li>The new species\u00a0stands out from its congeners\u00a0due\u00a0to a\u00a0unique combination of\u00a0morphological features.<\/li>\n<li>These\u00a0include a snout-vent length of 27\u201328\u2009mm in males and 29.9\u201336.2\u2009mm in females, a disc on fingers and toes with a horizontal\/transverse groove on the dorsal surface,\u00a0wrinkled dorsal skin, and a\u00a0pair of faint dorsolateral stripes on the back.<\/li>\n<li>Key Facts about Namdapha Tiger Reserve<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0India\u2019s easternmost tiger reserve.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is located in the Changlang district of\u00a0Arunachal Pradesh, near the international\u00a0border with Myanmar.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The area is located\u00a0between the Dapha Bum ridge of the Mishmi Hills,\u00a0outspurs of North Eastern Himalayas and the Patkai Ranges.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It was declared in the year 1983.<\/li>\n<li>Vegetation:\u00a0Evergreen Forests, Moist deciduous forests, sub-tropical forests, Temperate Forests and Alpine.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Climate:\n<ul>\n<li>The Namdapha Protected area,\u00a0being 27 degrees north of Equator, enjoys\u00a0a sub-tropical climate.<\/li>\n<li>However,\u00a0the climate of the area\u00a0varies from place to place\u00a0inside the protected area due to variations in altitude from 200 m to 4571m\u00a0and the area\u00a0also\u00a0being a\u00a0zone of heavy rainfall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Namdapha river:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>Namdapha is, in fact, the name of a river\u00a0which originates from Daphabum and meets the Noa-Dehing River.<\/li>\n<li>This river flows right across the reserve in a North-South direction\u00a0and hence the name Namdapha.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Flora: The Botanical Survey of India has recorded\u00a073 species of lichens, 56 species of Bryophytes, 110 species of Pteridophytes, 5 species of Gymnosperms, and 801 species of Angiosperms.<\/li>\n<li>Fauna:\u00a0Elephants,\u00a0Himalayan Black Bear, Himalayan Sun Bear,\u00a0Hoolock Gibbon (only Ape in India), Slow Loris, large herbivores such as\u00a0Goral, Serow, Sambar, Pig, and Malayan Giant Squirrel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is osteology?<\/h3>\n<p>Osteology means the study of bones and comprises studies of both human and animal material. Osteological material forms the largest amount of finds at archaeological excavations, regardless of the site contains burials or settlement structures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/groundreport.in\/discovery-brook-dwarf-mountain-frog-alcalus-fontinalis-found-from-motijheel-track\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Discovery: Brook Dwarf Mountain Frog (Alcalus fontinalis) found from Motijheel track<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcalus fontinalis is a newly discovered species of frog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16307","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\/16307","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=16307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}