{"id":19350,"date":"2024-01-15T04:43:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T23:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19350"},"modified":"2025-04-05T16:56:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T11:26:28","slug":"coral-snake-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/coral-snake-species\/","title":{"rendered":"New Coral Snake Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About New coral snake species<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It has been named\u00a0Sinomicrurus gorei after British Indian doctor Gore.<\/li>\n<li>The reptile is\u00a0locally known as &#8216;Rul\u1e6dhihna&#8217; due to its striking resemblance to a Mizo traditional amber necklace called &#8216;\u1e6chihna&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>There are a total of\u00a0nine species of Sinomicrurus coral\u00a0snakes that have been\u00a0discovered worldwide, and out of these, only one species called Sinomicrurus macclellandi is found in Northeast India.<\/li>\n<li>It has unique patterns and different scales, hemipenis, DNA, and skull.<\/li>\n<li>Until this research, Sinomicrurus gorei was considered the same species as Sinomicrurus macclellandi due to their close resemblance.<\/li>\n<li>The new study also revealed that while Sinomicrurus macclellandi can lay 6-14 eggs at a time, Sinomicrurus gorei lays up to three eggs.<\/li>\n<li>In Mizoram,\u00a0Sinomicrurus macclellandi is primarily found in hilly or elevated areas, while Sinomicrurus gorei is found in both low-lying and hilly areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Cytotoxins?<\/h3>\n<p>The Cytotoxins (CTXs) are an essential class of the non-enzymatic three-finger toxin family and are\u00a0ubiquitously present in cobra venoms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.in\/wire-updates\/national\/2024\/01\/13\/cal3-mz-new-snake-species.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Researchers from Mizoram University discover new coral snake species<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Coral Snake Species has been named Sinomicrurus gorei after British Indian doctor Gore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19350","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\/19350","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=19350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}