{"id":6691,"date":"2023-03-19T04:58:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T23:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6691"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:54:26","slug":"cyrtopodion-vindhya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/cyrtopodion-vindhya\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyrtopodion Vindhya"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Cyrtopodion Vindhya:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The newly discovered <strong>naked-toed gecko<\/strong> has been named \u2018Cyrtopodion Vindhya\u2019 and it is the fifth endemic species of reptile described in the last fifteen years from the <strong>state of Gujarat.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The new species is named after the <strong>Vindhya hill ranges.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Palearctic naked-toed geckos of the <strong>genus Cyrtopodion<\/strong> are a group of gekkonid lizards distributed across the <strong>arid regions of north Africa, Arabia, and Central Asia to northwestern India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The taxonomic history of the genus Cyrtopodion has been unstable, and 23 species are currently recognized, with the diversity concentrated in Pakistan and Iran.<\/li>\n<li>The newly discovered reptile is a <strong>nocturnal species,<\/strong> associated with granite boulders.<\/li>\n<li>Mostly rupicolous( living among rocks) in its habits but can be found on the ground as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Reptile?<\/h3>\n<p>Reptiles are air-breathing, cold-blooded vertebrates that have scaly bodies rather than hair or feathers; most reptile species are egg-laying, though certain \u201csquamates\u201d \u2014 lizards, snakes and worm-lizards \u2014 give birth to live young.\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/others\/new-species-of-gecko-found-in-gujarat-named-after-vindhya-hills-101679212842509.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>New species of gecko found in Gujarat named after Vindhya hills<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyrtopodion Vindhya is a newly discovered naked-toed gecko and it is the fifth endemic species of reptile described in the last fifteen years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6691","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\/6691","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=6691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}