{"id":49899,"date":"2025-06-12T12:10:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T06:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49899"},"modified":"2025-06-12T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T08:36:00","slug":"ohlers-spiny-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ohlers-spiny-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohler\u2019s Spiny Frog"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ohler&#8217;s Spiny Frog Latest News<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ohler\u2019s Spiny Frog, a newly discovered large stout frog with spiny chest, was found at a waterfall in Vietnam\u2014over 4 inches long, challenges conservation norms.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About Ohler&#8217;s Spiny Frog<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ohler\u2019s Spiny Frog refers to large, robust frogs within the Quasipaa or related genera, which are known for their spiny chests and large size.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These frogs are primarily found in fast-flowing streams of evergreen forests in Southeast Asia and the Himalayan foothills.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Rocky streams in evergreen forests, particularly in northern Vietnam, southern China, and the Himalayan region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Key Features:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stout body with rough, spiny tubercles on chest (in males), toes are partially webbed<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Males develop throat and chest spines during breeding, a characteristic linked to spiny frog identification<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Skin colouration is dark brown with yellowish mottling; eyes are dark greenish.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Size reaches a snout-vent length exceeding 10\u202fcm (typically 7\u20138\u202fcm).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Significance<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Ecological Value:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Adds to biodiversity and underlines the ecological uniqueness of waterfall ecosystems<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Conservation Insight:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Highlights the need for habitat protection in Vietnam, especially for stream-dwelling amphibians<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Research Contribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Supports regional biogeography studies of Dicroglossidae frogs across Indo-Asia<\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/article308392905.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohler\u2019s Spiny Frog is a newly discovered large frog species, noted for its distinct features and growing ecological significance in its native habitat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[809,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-ohlers-spiny-frog","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\/49899","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=49899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}