Sitana attenboroughii has been named after Sir David Frederick Attenborough
The coastal belt of Thiruvananthapuram is home to many rare species of animals, a discovery by a group of researchers has proved.
The team had discovered a new species of fan-throated lizard, belonging to the genus Sitana, from Poovar during an expedition that was undertaken during September-October 2016. The finding has now been published in the latest issue of peer-reviewed journal Zootaxa.
The researchers’ team comprises Kalesh Sadasivan and M. Ramesh, representing the Thiruvananthapuram-based Travancore Nature History Society, and Jafer Palot of the Western Ghats Regional Centre of the Zoological Survey of India in Kozhikode. They collaborated with Mayuresh Ambedkar and Zeeshan A. Mirza of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, for =read more
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