A lizard new to science is wearing the Indian Army\u2019s tag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A team of herpetologists have recorded a new species of bent-toed gecko from a wooded part of the Umroi Military Station in Meghalaya. Its scientific name is Crytodactylus exercitus<\/em> and English name is Indian Army\u2019s bent-toed gecko. Exercitus <\/em>in Latin means army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe name was given to honour the Army for its services to the country. The military station where the bent-toed gecko was discovered was also a factor behind its name,\u201d Jayaditya Purkayastha of green NGO Help Earth and one of the authors of a study on the gecko told The Hindu<\/em> on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The finding of the study was published in the latest issue of the European Journal of Taxonomy. The paper recorded another new bent-toed gecko, the Cyrtodactylus siahaensis<\/em> named after Mizoram\u2019s Siaha district where it was found. The other authors of the twin study are Sanath Chandra Bohra of Help Earth, Yashpal Singh Rathee of Umroi Military Station, Hmar Tlawmte Lalremsanga, Vabeiryureilai Mathipi, Lal Biakzuala and Lal Muansanga of Mizoram University\u2019s Department of Zoology and Beirathie Litho of a school in the Siaha district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most of these lizard specialists and a few others had in a separate study recorded the Cyrtodactylus lungleiensis, <\/em>a new species of bent-toed gecko named after Mizoram\u2019s Lunglei town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two more species of the lizard new to science have been named after the places of their occurrence in Mizoram A lizard new to science is wearing the Indian Army\u2019s tag. A team of herpetologists have recorded a new species of bent-toed gecko from a wooded part of the Umroi Military Station in Meghalaya. Its … Continue reading ** Army tag for new gecko from Meghalaya<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[206,6,8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defence-services-airlandsea","category-green-products","category-nature","category-records-india-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14025,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14023\/revisions\/14025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}