{"id":32139,"date":"2025-04-16T15:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=32139"},"modified":"2025-05-27T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T11:14:08","slug":"leptobrachium-aryatium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/leptobrachium-aryatium\/","title":{"rendered":"Leptobrachium Aryatium"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Leptobrachium aryatium Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>New Frog Species \u2018Leptobrachium aryatium\u2019 Discovered in Assam<\/p>\n<h2>Why in the News?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>new species of frog<\/strong>, named <i><strong>Leptobrachium aryatium<\/strong><\/i>, has been officially identified after a <strong>21-year-long study<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The frog was <strong>first studied in 2004<\/strong> but was originally misidentified as <strong>Leptobrachium smithi<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This species was found in the <strong>Garbhanga Reserve Forest<\/strong>, located on the <strong>southwestern edge of Guwahati<\/strong>, <strong>Assam<\/strong>, bordering <strong>Meghalaya<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It lies adjacent to <strong>Deepor Beel<\/strong>, a Ramsar site, and forms a crucial part of the <strong>Garbhanga-Rani-Deepar Beel elephant corridor<\/strong>, highlighting its importance in regional wildlife movement.<\/li>\n<li>The frog has been <strong>named after Arya Vidyapeeth College<\/strong>, a prominent educational institution in <strong>Guwahati<\/strong>, in recognition of its role in transforming the local area from a liquor brewing hub to an educationally respected zone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key Biological Features of Leptobrachium aryatium<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><i><strong>Leptobrachium aryatium<\/strong><\/i> belongs to the <strong>Leptobrachium genus<\/strong>, which includes <strong>stocky frogs<\/strong> with <strong>broad heads<\/strong>, <strong>short hind limbs<\/strong>, and <strong>distinctively coloured eyes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This new species is <strong>notable for its fiery orange-and-black eyes<\/strong>, a <strong>reticulated throat pattern<\/strong>, and a <strong>rhythmic dusk-time call<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific confirmation<\/strong> of its status as a new species was done through <strong>morphological examination<\/strong>, <strong>DNA analysis<\/strong>, and <strong>bioacoustic studies<\/strong> (study of call patterns).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/studied-over-21-years-new-frog-species-leptobrachium-aryatium-named-after-assam-college\/article69448300.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leptobrachium aryatium belongs to the Leptobrachium genus, which includes stocky frogs with broad heads, short hind limbs, and distinctively coloured eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":32142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-32139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-leptobrachium-aryatium","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32139","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}