{"id":29886,"date":"2025-02-06T08:04:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T02:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29886"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:39:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:09:26","slug":"bryospilus-bharaticus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bryospilus-bharaticus\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryospilus Bharaticus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bryospilus Bharaticus Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, a new species of water flea was discovered from moss growth found on walls of Korigad Fort near Pune and named it as Bryospilus (Indobryospilus) bharaticus n. sp.<\/p>\n<h2>About Bryospilus Bharaticus<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a species of <strong>water flea <\/strong>belonging to the Bryospilus genus.<\/li>\n<li>This recent discovery from western India is the <strong>first for the whole of Tropical Asia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Features of Bryospilus bharaticus<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It uses <strong>antennae as \u2018supports\u2019 to crawl<\/strong> through thick, debris-filled water films on moss.<\/li>\n<li>The antennae have big spines that assist sideways and forward movement.<\/li>\n<li>The fleas\u2019 main eye is absent because <strong>they live in reduced light<\/strong> and don\u2019t require colour distinction for foraging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution of Bryospilus bharaticus:<\/strong> It has been found in <strong>semi-terrestrial habitats<\/strong> in rainforests of West Africa, South and Central America, and New Zealand.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat of Bryospilus bharaticus:<\/strong> The distant relatives of this species are found in <strong>open waters<\/strong>, while many are found in littoral (vegetated) regions of different water bodies.<\/li>\n<li>The genus Bryospilus is a unique animal with characteristic adaptations suited for living in <strong>&#8220;semi-terrestrial&#8221; environments,<\/strong> such as water film found on mosses.<\/li>\n<li>Ancestors of this species were potentially present on the Indian subcontinent before the breakup of Gondwanaland started approximately 200 million years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are Water Fleas?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>These are small aquatic animals <strong>belonging to crustacea group<\/strong> that feed on small algae by filtering them from water.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> These are usually found in rivers, ponds, and pools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bryospilus Bharaticus FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> What defines Crustacea?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> It is any of various widespread arthropods of the class Crustacea that live mostly in water and have a hard shell, a segmented body, and jointed appendages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2: <\/strong>What is the difference between molluscs and crustaceans?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>Crustaceans are aquatic animals that have jointed legs, a hard shell and no backbone, such as crab, crayfish, lobster, prawns and shrimp. Most molluscs have a hinged two-part shell and include clams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/pune\/new-species-of-tiny-crustacean-found-in-western-ghats-near-pune\/articleshow\/117926427.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryospilus bharaticus is a species of water flea belonging to Bryospilus genus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29886","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\/29886","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=29886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}