A new species of cascade frog in Arunachal Pradesh has been named after the indigenous Adi tribe and the hills they inhabit.
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A new species of cascade frog in Arunachal Pradesh has been named after the indigenous Adi tribe and the hills they inhabit.
About the new species
The new frog species has been named Adi Cascade Frog (Amolops Adicola).
- Discovered on: the Adi hills in Arunachal Pradesh.
- The hills are home to the Adi tribe. The literal meaning of Adi is “hill” or “mountain top”.
- Cascade frogs are named so because of their preference of small waterfalls or cascades in flowing hill streams
- The findings were published in the Journal of Natural History, London.
Amolops
The genus Amolops is one of the largest groups of ranid frogs (family Ranidae) with currently 73 known species that are widely distributed across Northeast and North India, Nepal, Bhutan, China, through Indochina, to the Malay Peninsula.
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Adi tribe
- The Adi people are one of the most populous groups of indigenous peoples in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
- It is a Scheduled Tribes of the State.
- They are believed to have come from southern China in the 16th century.
- The Adi people speak a language also called Adi, which is distantly related to Chinese and Tibetan languages.
