First Published: sixth May, 2024 15:17 IST
The newly found snake is known as Herpetoreas Davidi- after the well-known French taxonomist Patrick David
In a ground-breaking cooperation, a group of herpetologists, together with a professor and a analysis scholar from Mizoram University, have uncovered a brand new species of snake throughout the Rakhine Yoma Elephant Wildlife Sanctuary in Rakhine, Myanmar.
HT Lalremsanga, professor of Zoology at Mizoram University and Lalbiakzuala, a analysis scholar additionally from Mizoram University together with Vietnamese herpetologist Tan Van Nguyen and German herpetologist Gernot Vogel made the invention from an intensive examine investigating the taxonomic standing of the Herpetoreas xenura species complicated, utilizing each morphological and molecular knowledge gathered from Mizoram, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.
The newly found snake is known as Herpetoreas Davidi- after the well-known French taxonomist Patrick David. This was printed within the scientific analysis journal- European Journal of Taxonomy quantity 932 on May 4, 2024.
Professor HT Lalremsanga mentioned, “The new snake that we discovered is a rare variety; and as far as we can trace, it is a non-venomous snake measuring upto 1 feet, 9 to 11 inches long in length.”
“It feeds on frogs and its habitat is the low lying swamps with high humidity,” he added.
Who is taxonomist?
A taxonomist is a biologist who classifies organisms into classes. A plant taxonomist would analysis the origins and relationships between totally different varieties of roses, whereas an insect taxonomist would possibly deal with the relationships between totally different species of beetles.
Who is herpetologist?
A herpetologist is a biologist who research reptiles and amphibians together with salamanders and frogs. Many herpetologists deal with conservation of those species. Others use them to guage the general environmental traits of a sure location.
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