Criterion (ix): The Western Ghats region demonstrates speciation related to the breakup of the ancient landmass of Gondwanaland in the early Jurassic period; secondly to the formation of India into an ...

A green pit viper named after Salazar Slytherin from Harry Potter, an unfamiliar snake found in an Instagram post, and twelve ...

These spiders have been described as highly adapted to their environment, inhabiting the dense foliage of the Western Ghats. The genus was previously considered endemic to Sri Lanka.