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Animal Discoveries 2020
August 31 , 2021
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- It is a document published recently by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI).
- It reveals that 557 new species have been added to India’s fauna in 2020.
- It includes 407 new species and 150 new records.
- The number of faunal species in India has climbed to 1,02,718 species.
Some added species
- Trimeresurus salazar, a new species of green pit viper discovered from Arunachal Pradesh,
- Lycodon deccanensis, the Deccan wolf snake discovered from Karnataka,
- Sphaerotheca Bengaluru, a new species of burrowing frog named after the city of Bengaluru,
- Xyrias anjaalai, a new deep water species of snake eel from Kerala,
- Glyptothorax giudikyensis, a new species of catfish from Manipur,
- Clyster galateansis, a new species of scarab beetles from the Great Nicobar Biosphere,
- Myotis cf. frater, a bat species has been reported for the first time from Uttarakhand in India,
- Zoothera citrina gibsonhilli, an orange-headed thrush was reported for the first time from the Narcondam Island in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
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