“Bompu”: A New Frog Species Discovered in Arunachal Pradesh

“Bompu”: A New Frog Species Discovered in Arunachal Pradesh

• A new frog species discovered in Eagle Nest Wildlife sanctuary at Sessa in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh in a survey conducted as part of Eagle Nest Biodiversity Project with support of the state forest department
  
• Bompu was the name given to the frog after the neighborhood in the sanctuary where it was discovered
  
• The frog is inhabitant to the forest streams at an elevation of 2,000 m and lives beneath leaf trash and decaying logs
  
• The frog belongs to the family Megophrydae and the genus Leptobrachium
  
• Only 28 members of this genus are known worldwide and most of them are found in Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, China and Vietnam
  
• This finding is significant because only 2 other members of the genus are identified from India
  

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011