New Frog Species 'Adi Cascade' Discovered In Arunachal Pradesh

The new species of Cascade Frog has been named Adi Cascade Frog (Amolops adicola) after the Adi hills in Arunachal Pradesh.

A team of biologists from Delhi University, Wildlife Institute of India and North Carolina Museum of Natural Science (USA) has discovered a new species of frog from the Adi hills Arunachal Pradesh, according to an official statement. The new species of Cascade Frog has been named Adi Cascade Frog (Amolops adicola) after the Adi hills, which are home to Adi tribes, an indigenous group of people from the Himalayan regions in the state. The literal meaning of Adi is "hill" or "mountain top". Historically, this region was also known as Abor Hills. The findings have been published in a scientific article titled ''Phylogenetic position of the poorly known montane cascade frog Amolops monticola (Ranidae) and description of a new closely related species from Northeast India" in the Journal of Natural History, London, the statement said.