ITANAGAR, Sept 20 � In a significant finding, a blue-eyed frog species has been discovered in Eagle Nest Wildlife Sanctuary at Sessa in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh.
Dehradun-based naturalist Sanjay Sondhi, during a survey conducted as part of Eagle Nest Biodiversity Project with support of the State Forest department, discovered the amphibian species in the early part of this year, officials said here today.
The frog, named Bompu after the locality in the sanctuary where it was found, is native to the forest streams at an altitude of 2,000 metres and lives under leaf litter and rotting logs.
�The discovery of the new species of frog shows that the forests of Arunachal still host many new species waiting to be found. Therefore, conserving the forests and their biodiversity is crucial,� chief wildlife warden Jawahar Lal Singh said.
The description was made in the international journal �Zootaxa� in June 2011 by Sodhi and French scientist Annemarie Ohler.
Only 28 members of this genus are known worldwide and most of them are found in Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and China. � PTI