Numerous new species discovered in India
05 Jul 2022
The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) discovered 540 new species in 2021. According to ZSI officials, the new discoveries took the Indian faunal diversities to 1,03,258 species, accounting for 6.1% of the global faunal diversity. India stands 8th out of 17 mega bio-diverse countries in the world. The new species would be added to the repository of 92,037 faunal species surveyed in the ZSI’s 106-year-old history.