{"id":49314,"date":"2025-06-01T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49314"},"modified":"2025-06-06T12:40:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:10:35","slug":"amolops-shillong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/amolops-shillong\/","title":{"rendered":"Amolops shillong"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Amolops shillong Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Scientists recently identified a new species of frog named Amolops shillong, or the Shillong Cascade Frog, hiding in plain sight\u2014right within the city limits of Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya.<\/p>\n<h2>About Amolops shillong<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Amolops shillong, or the\u00a0<strong>Shillong Cascade Frog,<\/strong>\u00a0is a\u00a0<strong>new species of frog.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The new species, which loves\u00a0<strong>fast-flowing streams<\/strong>, has been quietly living in\u00a0<strong>Shillong\u2019s urban forest patches.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It belongs to a group of visually similar,\u00a0<strong>fast-flowing stream frogs<\/strong>\u00a0that are notoriously hard to tell apart.<\/li>\n<li>Genetic analysis confirmed that A. shillong is\u00a0<strong>part of the Amolops indoburmanensis complex,<\/strong>\u00a0closely\u00a0<strong>related to Amolops siju<\/strong>\u2014a<strong>nother species described by the<\/strong>\u00a0Zoological Survey of India (<strong>ZSI) in 2023 from Siju Cave in Meghalaya.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>However, unlike its cave-dwelling cousin, A. shillong was\u00a0<strong>found amidst bustling neighborhoods<\/strong>, just kilometers from the city center.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Their presence in Shillong\u2019s streams signals the existence of vital but overlooked microhabitats.<\/li>\n<li>Frogs of the\u00a0<strong>Amolops genus\u00a0<\/strong>have been known from India since the 1850s, but\u00a0<strong>urban discoveries are almost unheard of.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>India now has 20 recognized Amolops species,<\/strong>\u00a016 of which were discovered within the country.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Nine of these, including A. shillong, were described in just the last 20 years\u2014<strong>most from Northeast India<\/strong>, a known biodiversity hotspot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Amolops shillong FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is Amolops shillong?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Amolops shillong, or the Shillong Cascade Frog, is a new species of frog.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Amolops shillong belongs to which species complex?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Amolops indoburmanensis complex<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What makes the discovery of Amolops shillong particularly unique?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It was found in an urban forest patch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hubnetwork.in\/new-frog-species-discovered-in-shillongs-urban-jungle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HUBN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amolops shillong, the Shillong Cascade Frog, is a newly discovered species thriving in Shillong&#8217;s fast-flowing streams and hard to distinguish from its kin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[698,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-amolops-shillong","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49314","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}