{"id":13996,"date":"2021-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/05-02-2021\/new-species-of-snake-eel-found\/"},"modified":"2021-02-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T00:00:00","slug":"new-species-of-snake-eel-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/05-02-2021\/new-species-of-snake-eel-found","title":{"rendered":"New species of snake eel found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In News -Recently ,<\/strong>Researchers discovered a new species of <strong>snake eel<\/strong> from the ports of<strong> Paradip<\/strong> in <strong>Odisha and Petuaghat<\/strong> <strong>harbour <\/strong>in <strong>West Bengal<\/strong> along the <strong>Bay of Bengal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cfstatic.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/file_library\/mix_content\/895364478663637400_image.png\" style=\"height:274px; margin-left:50px; margin-right:50px; width:508px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>About &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The scientists have proposed the name of the new species as <strong>\u2018Indian fringe-lip eel\u2019 or Cirrhimuraena indica.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The genus of the species is <strong>Cirrhimuraena.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The genus is represented in Indian waters by <strong>Cirrhimuraena playfairii<\/strong> or the <strong>fringe-lip snake ee<\/strong>l that is reported from the <strong>Godavari estuarine system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0It is part of the <strong>Ophichthidae family<\/strong> of<strong> snake eels<\/strong> and its order is <strong>Anguilliformes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The new species belonged to the same clade as <strong>Cirrhimuraena chinensis <\/strong>and was separated from it <strong>morphologically and genetically.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cirrhimuraena chinensis<\/strong> is a <strong>tropical, marine eel<\/strong> that is known from<strong> China <\/strong>and <strong>Papua New Guinea<\/strong>, in the<strong> western Pacific Ocean.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>12 nominal species<\/strong> belonging to the genus<strong> Cirrhimureaena <\/strong>known in the <strong>Indo-West Pacific.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other new fish species discovered\u00a0 from the Odisha-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was the <strong>second new fish species<\/strong> discovered by researchers from the<strong> Odisha coast <\/strong>in the<strong> past two years. <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In 2018<\/strong>, researchers led by Mohapatra of ZSI had found a new species of <strong>moray eel <\/strong>which is <strong>a snake-like fish<\/strong> from the<strong> Bay of Benga<\/strong>l at Gopalpur.\n<ul>\n<li>The scientists named the species as <strong>Odissi moray (scientifically named Gymnothorax odishi)<\/strong> as it was first sighted <strong>in Odisha.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Before the <strong>Odissi eel,<\/strong> there was only a s<strong>ingle species of brown short unpatterned eel<\/strong> named as <strong>Gymnothorax mishra<\/strong>i known from India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/new-species-of-snake-eel-found-in-bay-of-bengal-by-researchers-75352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source :DTH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News -Recently ,Researchers discovered a new species of snake eel from the ports of Paradip in Odisha and Petuaghat harbour in West Bengal along the Bay of Bengal. About &#8211; The scientists have proposed the name of the new species as \u2018Indian fringe-lip eel\u2019 or Cirrhimuraena indica. The genus of the species is Cirrhimuraena. 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