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? Baishanzu horned toad, a new global species, was discovered in Lishui. This morning, a press conference on biodiversity work was held in Lishui, Zhejiang Province, at which it was announced that a new amphibian species, baishanzu horned toad, had been discovered in Lishui City. The discovery of this new species has added a new member to the world amphibian family. A few months ago, the biodiversity investigation team found a horned toad with a strange sound in a ravine when they were investigating amphibians and reptiles in baishanzu National Park. By morphological comparison and molecular biological identification, it was preliminarily identified as a new species.
? At the end of last year, a paper jointly written by Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and Chengdu Institute of Biology of China Academy of Sciences was published in the authoritative magazine International Zoological Taxonomy. The paper focused on the discovery of a new amphibian species in Lishui City, Zhejiang Province, and named it baishanzu horned toad, because its model origin was in baishanzu National Park. According to reports, baishanzu horned toad only exists in the narrow range of 1, 400 ~ 1, 600 meters above sea level in baishanzu National Park. Its habitat is mainly the mountain stream near evergreen broad-leaved forest. Habitat also includes amphibians such as horned toad, breast frog, Wuyi turbulent frog and fat salamander of ice. These species have strict requirements on the water quality of streams and the surrounding vegetation. In addition, baishanzu National Park has a long geological history, high altitude and large span, and retains the relict plant (such as Baishanzu Abies) in the Quaternary Glacier Period, creating a natural geographical barrier for the formation of species such as baishanzu horned toad. ?
According to public information, the horned toad is a toad-shaped lizard with long horns on its head, dense long spines on its body and tail, and some horns behind its head are thick and sharp. Horned toads live in tropical deserts and usually like to stay in caves in dry areas or sand, sticking their heads out of caves to catch insects.
Finally, let's talk about the related environmental problems in Lishui City: the background investigation of biodiversity in Lishui City organized by Lishui Ecological Environment Bureau covers the whole territory of Lishui, and the key investigation areas include various nature reserves and ecological protection red lines at all levels. The survey objects include ecosystem types, vascular plants, terrestrial vertebrates, terrestrial insects, freshwater aquatic organisms, macrofungi, as well as alien invasive species and traditional knowledge related to biodiversity, involving different levels of biodiversity. The background investigation of biodiversity in Lishui City organized by Lishui Ecological Environment Bureau covers the whole territory of Lishui, and the key investigation areas include various nature reserves and ecological protection red line areas. The survey objects include ecosystem types, vascular plants, terrestrial vertebrates, terrestrial insects, freshwater aquatic organisms, macrofungi, as well as alien invasive species and traditional knowledge related to biodiversity, involving different levels of biodiversity. ?