{"id":113617,"date":"2021-05-24T12:45:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T12:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=113617"},"modified":"2021-05-24T12:45:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T12:45:55","slug":"xylophis-deepaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/xylophis-deepaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Xylophis Deepaki"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: A new snake species discovered in the beginning of 2021 Xylophis Deepaki first found at which of the following place?<br><\/strong>a) Kanyakumari<br>b) Arunachal Pradesh<br>c) Himachal Pradesh<br>d) Rajasthan<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In the beginning of 2021; a tiny wood snake in the family Pareidae of species Xylophis discovered.<\/li><li>This small genus of snakes has recently been named as Xylophis Deepaki.<\/li><li>It was first found on a coconut plantation in Kanyakumari.<\/li><li>This snake has been named so to honour Indian herpetologist Deepak Veerappan<\/li><li>Herpetologist Deepak Veerappan made his valuable contribution in erecting a new subfamily Xylophiinae for wood snakes.<\/li><li><strong>Details of Xylophis Deepaki:-<\/strong><\/li><li>This new snake species also known as common name \u2018Deepak\u2019s wood snake\u2019.<\/li><li>It is a tiny snake of just 20 cm length with iridescent scales.<\/li><li>It was first found on a coconut plantation in Kanyakumari.<\/li><li>It is now reported to be an endemic species of Tamil Nadu.<\/li><li>It has also been sighted in some parts of the Southern Western Ghats,<\/li><li>In Southern Western Ghats it has especially found in the drier regions and in lower altitudes around Agasthyamalai hills.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/herpetologist-deepak-veerappan-has-a-snake-named-after-him\/article34459064.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/herpetologist-deepak-veerappan-has-a-snake-named-after-him\/article34459064.ece<br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/journalsofindia.com\/xylophis-deepaki\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/journalsofindia.com\/xylophis-deepaki\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: A new snake species discovered in the beginning of 2021 Xylophis Deepaki first found at which of the following place?a) Kanyakumarib) Arunachal Pradeshc) Himachal Pradeshd) RajasthanAnswer: (a)Related Facts:- In the beginning of 2021; a tiny wood snake in the family Pareidae of species Xylophis discovered. This small genus of snakes has recently been named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":113618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-113617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113619,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113617\/revisions\/113619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}