India, March 1 -- A team of researchers from Amdar Shashikant Shinde Mahavidyalay, Medha; Dahiwadi College, Dahiwadi; Thackeray Wildlife Foundation; and Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) Pune has discovered a new species of cricket frog in the Mahabaleshwar region of Satara district in the northern western ghats. The new species has been named 'Minervarya Ghatiborealis' and a research paper on the same has been published on February 27 in the international journal Zootaxa published from New Zealand.

The research team comprising Omkar Yadav, Amrut Bhosal, Priyanka Patil, Akshay Khandekar, and K P Dinesh has provided scientific description of the species with a multiple line of evidence including morphology, morphometry, acoustics, natural ...