Top 10 Newly Discovered Animal Species
10. Eriovixia
Gryffindori
Eriovixia Gryffindori, also called the Harry Potter spider due to the resemblance to the sorting hat in the Harry Potter books, was discovered originally in Karnataka, India. It was discovered by Javed Ahmed, Rajashree Khalap and Sumukha Javagal.
The spider has an odd shaped body
that arises from a wide base and ends to a bent peak as a disguise of a dried
up leave. The spider’s body is covered with tiny hair white and light yellow
hairs.
9. Gracilimus
Radix
The Gracilimus Radix is a new species of wild rodent that was discovered in Indonesia in a mountainous area. It’s also known as the slender root rat and weighs around 40 grams.
The slender root rat is unlike any
other rodent species that the scientists have ever seen, and it might actually
be a new genus. It is the fourth rat discovered in the past few years.
8. Domed Land
Snail
Zospeum tholussum, also called domed land snail, is a land snail that was discovered in a cave system in Croatia. The domed land snail is blind, and has translucent shells with five to six whorls giving it a ghost like appearance.
The snail lives in complete
darkness, almost 3,000 feet below the surface in Lukina Jama-Trojama caves.
According to scientists, the domed land snail is slower than most snails
creeping only a few centimeters per week. It’s believed that the snail
hitchhike on other cave animals to travel long distances.
7. Potamotrygon
Rex
The Potamotrygon Rex is a new species of neotropical freshwater stingray. It was discovered in 2016 from the middle and upper Rio Tocantins, Brazil. And it is also called the Great River Stingray.
The stingray has a black or dark
brownish color with several small yellow spots on the dorsal disk. It’s fairly
large in size, earning it the title the king of freshwater in the Brazilian
river. It can weigh up to 44 pounds and cannot be found anywhere else on Earth.
6. Xenoturbella
Churro
The Xenoturbella Churro is a new species of sea creature that was found in eastern Pacific Ocean. It has an uncanny resemblance to the fried dough pastry, the churro, hence the name of the specie.
The Xenoturbella churro is like a
jellyfish lacking the tentacles, the pulsating body and the rave lighting. It’s
a representative of a group of primitive worm like animals. It is pinkish
purple in color, and feeds mollusk.
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5. Scolopendra
Cataracta
The Scolopendra Cataracta is centipede of nightmares. The newly discovered species was found in Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. It was named Cataracta, which means waterfall in Latin, where the centipede was collected.
The centipede has the ability to
plunge into water the same way it does on land, which makes it the first of its
kind. It’s 8 inches long with 20 pairs of long legs.
4.
Eulophophyllum kirki
The Eulophophyllum Kirki are katydids that were discovered when researchers were searching for tarantulas and snakes in Borneo, Malaysia. What makes them unique is that the females sport a distinctly rosy color which makes them stand out while the males are uniform green colors. However, both the male and the female have distinctive veins that make them look exactly like leaves. (source).
3. Olinguito
Discovered in 2014, the Olinguito (which is also known as kitty bear), is a remarkable mammal from the raccoon family. It looks like a cross between a domestic cat and a romanticized teddy bear.
The Olinguito has large eyes and
thick, woolly brown fur and is the smallest member of the raccoon family. It
weighs around 2 pounds (900 grams) and has a 13 to 17 inches tail. It lives in
the loud forests of Colombia and Ecuador.
2. Pheidole
Drogon
The Pheidole Drogon is a new ant species that resemble Khaleesi’s fire breathing dragons from the Game of Thrones Series, hence the name. The new ant species were firstly discovered in Papua New Guinea. They look unique with spiny barbs along their backs and shoulders that protect them against predators. Scientists were able to identify the Pheidole Drogon using 3D imaging technology.
Researchers believe that the unusual
set of muscles beneath the spiny barbs are there to help the ants hold up their
oversized heads which are already packed with muscles to help them lift heavy
and large objects.
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1. Illacme
Tobini
The Illacme tobini is new species of millipedes that was discovered in a cave near the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains California, USA. This creature posse 414 legs, no eyes, 200 poison gland and 4 penises. It also can continue adding body parts throughout their lives. The Illacme tobini posse nozzles on each of their 100 segments to secrete a chemical in order to defend themselves against any danger.
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