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• Perrottetia rajeshgopali - a new species of land snail recorded from India has a touch of the tiger.

Perrottetia rajeshgopali

• The “snail of Sahyadri” recorded for the first time from Maharashtra’s northern Western Ghats is carnivorous.
• It is named after one of the country’s top tiger conservationists — Rajesh Gopal.
• It is the first species of the genus Perrottetia to be described from India in 117 years.
• The new snail is a hermaphrodite.

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