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Animal Discoveries - New Species and New Records 2023
July 8 , 2023
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- India added 664 animal species to its faunal database in the year 2022.
- These comprise 467 new species and 197 species found in India for the first time.
- The country also added 339 new plant taxa – 186 taxa that are new to science and 153 taxa as new distributional records from the country in 2022.
- Among the major fauna species discovered are three new species and one new record of mammals; two new records of birds; 30 new species and two new records of reptiles; six new species and one new record of amphibia; and 28 new species and eight new records of fish.
- The maximum number of new faunal discoveries has been of invertebrates with 583 species, while vertebrates constitute 81 species.
- Insects dominate among invertebrates with 384 species.
- In 2022, the maximum (82) new discoveries were recorded from Kerala.
- Karnataka is followed with 64 new species and 24 new records accounting for 13.2%.
- Tamil Nadu saw 71 new discoveries and 13 new records contributing to 12.6% of all the new discoveries and new records in the country.
- Plant Discoveries 2022’ contains an enumeration of 339 taxa, which have been added to the Indian flora during 2022.
- These comprise 319 species, and 20 infraspecific taxa as new to the Indian flora.
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