{"id":17316,"date":"2023-11-23T03:28:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T21:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17316"},"modified":"2025-04-05T03:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T22:01:39","slug":"new-frog-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/new-frog-species\/","title":{"rendered":"New Frog Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About New Frog Species<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a new species of\u00a0&#8216;music frog&#8217;\u00a0which is\u00a0named as\u00a0Nidirana noadihing.<\/li>\n<li>The new frog of the\u00a0genus Nidirana, is phenotypically distinct from its congeners by a combination of morphological characters<\/li>\n<li>It is confirmed for the first time that the\u00a0Nidirana genus has been found in India.<\/li>\n<li>The Nidirana species are known in\u00a0Japan, Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand.<\/li>\n<li>Nidirana are known to\u00a0inhabit swamps, ponds and paddy fields, and they often construct nests to lay their eggs.<\/li>\n<li>The new species was named after\u00a0the Noa-Dihing River, which is near where the specimens were discovered and collected.<\/li>\n<li>Appearance:\u00a0The amphibians have &#8220;irregular shaped and sized spots&#8221; on their eyelids and they have dark stripes around their moderately large eyes. Their pupils are gold-rimmed. Their irises are dark brown and have a golden spackle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Amphibian?<\/h3>\n<p>It is any member of the group of vertebrate animals characterized by their ability to exploit both aquatic and terrestrial habitats. The name amphibian, derived from the Greek amphibios meaning \u201cliving a double life,\u201d reflects this dual life strategy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/itanagar\/scientists-discover-new-species-of-music-frog-in-arunachal\/articleshow\/105428255.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scientists discover new species of &#8216;music frog&#8217; in Arunachal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Frog Species is a &#8216;music frog&#8217; which is named as Nidirana noadihing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17316","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\/17316","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=17316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}