{"id":30437,"date":"2025-02-28T07:53:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30437"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:20:50","slug":"minervarya-ghatiborealis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/minervarya-ghatiborealis\/","title":{"rendered":"Minervarya Ghatiborealis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Minervarya Ghatiborealis Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Researchers from the west Maharashtra region recently discovered a new endemic species of frog named \u2018Minervarya ghatiborealis&#8217;.<\/p>\n<h2>About Minervarya Ghatiborealis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a new <strong>species of endemic frog.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was found at the hill station <strong>Mahabaleshwar <\/strong>in the <strong>north-western Ghats of Sahyadri<\/strong> in <strong>Maharashtra<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This species is named after the Sanskrit word <strong>\u2018Ghati&#8217;<\/strong>, <strong>meaning western,<\/strong> and the Latin word <strong>\u2018Borealis&#8217;<\/strong>, <strong>meaning northern region,<\/strong> thus meaning \u2018from the north western Ghats&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>It has been included in the <strong>genus Minervarya,<\/strong> commonly known as the <strong>\u2018Cricket frog&#8217;.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Frogs of the Minervarya genus are distinguished by the <strong>parallel lines on their abdomens.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They <strong>nest near standing water or small springs<\/strong> and make noises similar to that of nightingales.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The breeding vocalisation of males differs from other species of the genus.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Minervarya Ghatiborealis FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What are endemic species?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Endemic species are those that are restricted to a geographical area and do not occur naturally in any other part of the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. The Western Ghats passes through which states in India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It traverses the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Are frogs and toads the same?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> Frogs and toads are both amphibians belonging to the order Anura, but they have distinct differences in their physical traits, habitat preferences, and behavior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolhapur\/new-endemic-frog-species-found-in-mahabaleshwar\/articleshow\/118611051.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minervarya Ghatiborealis is a newly discovered endemic frog species, adding to the rich biodiversity of its region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30437","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\/30437","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=30437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}