Overview
- Published in Vertebrate Zoology, the peer‑reviewed work by Bitupan Boruah, Abhijit Das and V. Deepak formalizes the discoveries after multi‑year field research.
- Six species were documented in Arunachal Pradesh, three in Meghalaya, and one each in Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland and Manipur.
- The team assessed 204 specimens from 81 locations across eight states, including 25 protected areas, using genetics, morphology and acoustic data.
- The study revises species distributions, re‑examines century‑old Indo‑Burma museum material, and synonymises four previously described names.
- Researchers report this as the highest number of vertebrate species described in a single Indian publication in over a decade and warn of threats from shifting cultivation, cardamom farming, linear infrastructure and mega‑dams.