{"id":31411,"date":"2025-03-23T06:08:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T00:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31411"},"modified":"2025-04-16T11:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:15:17","slug":"sheathia-rosemalayensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sheathia-rosemalayensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheathia Rosemalayensis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sheathia rosemalayensis Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>In a recent discovery, researchers recently identified a new species of freshwater algae named \u2018Sheathia rosemalayensis\u2019, in Rosemala, located in Kollam district, Kerala.<\/p>\n<h2>About Sheathia rosemalayensis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>new species of freshwater algae.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was<strong> discovered in Rosemala,<\/strong> located in THE <strong>western ghats of Kerala, <\/strong>and has been named after the place where it was found.<\/li>\n<li>This discovery is crucial because Sheathia species are <strong>extremely rare in India<\/strong>. <strong>Before this, only one other species<\/strong> was <strong>reported from the Himalayas.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Sheathia rosemalayensis has so far been documented only in the southern Western Ghats, a geographically distinct region.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In contrast, <strong>other species <\/strong>within the Sheathia genus, such as <strong>S. assamica, S. indonepalensis, <\/strong>and S. dispersa, have<strong> broader distributions<\/strong> spanning <strong>Assam, Nepal, Indonesia, Taiwan<\/strong>, and even the Hawaiian Archipelago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What are Algae?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Algae are a diverse group of <strong>aquatic organisms<\/strong> that have the ability to <strong>conduct photosynthesis.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They <strong>can be unicellular <\/strong>(single-celled) or<strong> multicellular,<\/strong> ranging <strong>from microscopic phytoplankton to large seaweeds <\/strong>like kelp.<\/li>\n<li>They have <strong>no true Roots, Stems, or Leaves<\/strong>. Unlike plants, algae <strong>lack vascular tissues.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Certain algae are familiar to most people; for instance, seaweeds (such as kelp or phytoplankton), pond scum, or the algal blooms in lakes.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>However, there exists a vast and varied world of algae that are not only helpful to us, but are critical to our existence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Sheathia rosemalayensis FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Where was Sheathia rosemalayensis discovered?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Rosemala, Western Ghats of Kerala<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. In which type of ecosystem is Sheathia rosemalayensis found?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Freshwater<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Why is the discovery of Sheathia rosemalayensis significant?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Sheathia species are extremely rare in India.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/states\/kerala\/2025\/Mar\/22\/kerala-cm-warns-of-sword-of-damocles-over-delimitation-calls-move-politically-driven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NIE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheathia rosemalayensis is a new species of freshwater algae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31411","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\/31411","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=31411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}