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Haploptychius sahyadriensis
June 17 , 2022
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- India’s newest recorded snail was named after Western Ghats.
- The Western Ghats of Maharashtra have yielded a carnivorous land snail new to the world of science.
- The Haploptychius sahyadriensis is endemic to the Vishalgad Conservation Reserve in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur district.
- The Haploptychius sahyadriensis was recorded from the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra.
- It is the third member of the genus Haploptychius.
- The other two – H. andamanicus and H. pfeifferi – were recorded in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the 1860s.
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