Agartala, June 14 -- In a major boost to soil biodiversity research, two new earthworm species have been discovered in Tripura.
The breakthrough comes from a collaborative study conducted by researchers from Tripura University and institutions in Kerala.
Animesh Dey, an Assistant Professor at the Ecology and Biodiversity Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Tripura University, led the research team from Tripura. S. Prasanth Narayanan, R. Paliwal, and others joined him. Dey and Sabyasachi Nath first collected the newly identified species, Kanchuria tripuraensis and Kanchuria priyasankari, between 2004 and 2010 during their doctoral fieldwork. Professor Priyasankar Chaudhuri guided their work.
A new group of researchers recently recollecte...
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