After the recent discovery of a green-coloured nonvenomous snake from Arunachal Pradesh, three new species of horned frogs have been found in North East India. After extensive research of 14 years, a team of scientists슬롯 머신 사이트 추천three new species of horned frogs of the genus Megophrys or Asian Horned Frogs in Nagaland and Manipur. These frogs have elongated upper "eyebrows" which is why they are called Asian Horned Frogs. The new findings were published in the Journal of Natural History.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Salazar Slytherin Discovered in Arunchal Pradesh! New Pit Viper Snake Named After Harry Potter Character.

The research team included Irish and Indian biologists. The team members were from슬롯 머신 사이트 추천University College Dublin (Ireland), the Natural History Museum (UK), and the University of Delhi. The new frogs were found슬롯 머신 사이트 추천in Nagaland and one from Manipur슬롯사이트™s Tamenglong district. These new species were not known or recorded in science before. They belong to the슬롯 머신 사이트 추천genus Megophrys. The names of these new frogs have been kept슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Megophrys awuh (Naga Hills Horned Frog), Megophrys numhbumaeng (Tamenglong Horned Frog) and Megophrys dzukou (Dzukou Valley Horned Frog).슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Frog Caught Eating One of The Most Venomous Snakes in The World! (View Pics).

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The word awuh means frog in the Pochury tribe. The second frog gets its name from슬롯 머신 사이트 추천(Ruangmei) word nwmbwmaeng, which means "forest spirit." Rongmei were the primary natives in the district of슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Tamenglong in Manipur. The third frog was found in the Dzkou valley so it is named after the place. The team was studying a group of small horned frogs when they made these new findings. And these discoveries were a result of 14 years of research and 7 years of fieldwork in wettest terrains in North East.

Besides, these three new species, the team also found about the wide distribution of other four to five frogs here. As Dr Stephen Mahony the lead author of the research paper was quoted to local media, "This study is a testament to how little is known about the most threatened animal groups, frogs, in northeastern India. Our work has completely changed what we thought we knew about these secretive animals, from how to identify the different species and how they are related to each other, to where they live and how vulnerable they may be to deforestation."

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