A team led by renowned scientist Dr Anil Zachariah has discovered 10 new species of frogs from the hill ranges of southern Western Ghats with the help of Zoological Survey of India.
The discovery has been published in the latest issue of Biosytamatica, an international journal on animal taxonomy, ecology and zoogeography. Of the 10 species, nine species of frogs belong to the Raorchestes genus.
The remaining one belongs to the Polypedates genus under the family Rhacophoridae. One species in the Raorchestes genus has been named Raorchestes agasthyaensis, after the Vedic sage Agastya, while Raorchestes manohari is named after principal chief conservator of forests T.M. Manoharan.