{"id":49637,"date":"2025-06-09T15:38:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49637"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:07:41","slug":"dugesia-punensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dugesia-punensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Dugesia Punensis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dugesia Punensis Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A new species of planarian worm that regenerates, named Dugesia Punensis, has been found in the Pashan Lake in the city of Pune recently.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Dugesia Punensis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>new species of planarian worm.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Planarians are\u00a0<strong>aquatic flatworms<\/strong>, renowned for their extraordinary\u00a0<strong>regenerative capabilities.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0<strong>discovered in Pashan Lake<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Pune\u00a0<\/strong>district,\u00a0<strong>Maharashtra<\/strong>, a wetland within the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot.<\/li>\n<li>It is the<strong>\u00a0first time since 1983\u00a0<\/strong>that a\u00a0<strong>new planarian species\u00a0<\/strong>has been\u00a0<strong>recorded in India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Dugesia Punensis Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The new species is characterised by its\u00a0<strong>spotted appearance<\/strong>, slightly reduced auricles, and elongated pharynx and gonopore.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The body size ranges between 8mm-12mm in length.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>dorsal side<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<strong>spotted dark brown<\/strong>\u00a0in appearance, with a\u00a0<strong>light brown back.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>ventral side looks pale.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Eggs are circular and have a reddish appearance.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Auricular grooves enclose two bright black eyes<\/li>\n<li>It can\u00a0<strong>completely regenerate in 10-13 days.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Dugesia Punensis FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Dugesia punensis belongs to which group of animals?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Flatworms<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. How long does it take for Dugesia punensis to completely regenerate?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. 10\u201313 days<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. In which Indian biodiversity hotspot was Dugesia punensis discovered?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Western Ghats<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/science\/new-regenerating-flatworm-species-dugesia-punensis-discovered-in-pune-8600695\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NDTV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dugesia punensis is a newly discovered species of planarian worm, known for its regenerative abilities, found in the freshwater habitats of Pune, India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[768,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-dugesia-punensis","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\/49637","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=49637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}