{"id":102285,"date":"2026-05-07T15:36:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=102285"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:06:46","slug":"lutjanus-arakan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lutjanus-arakan\/","title":{"rendered":"Lutjanus Arakan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Lutjanus Arakan\u00a0Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers recently recorded a new snapper species \u2018Lutjanus arakan\u2019 in Indian waters for the first time at Gopalpur in Ganjam district, in a significant contribution to Indian marine fish taxonomy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Lutjanus Arakan<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>species of snapper.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Snappers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, belonging to the family Lutjanidae, are<\/span><b> marine fishes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> typically found in <\/span><b>tropical and subtropical regions.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are known for their ecological importance as <\/span><b>mid-level predators<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and are often associated with <\/span><b>reef and coastal ecosystems.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lutjanus arakan was <\/span><b>identified at Gopalpur-on-Sea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Ganjam district, <\/span><b>Odisha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The species had <\/span><b>previously been recorded off the coast of Bangladesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but had not been documented in Indian waters until now.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is distinguished from other snappers by its unique body colouration, featuring a <\/span><b>reddish-silver hue<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a <\/span><b>series of four dark-reddish-brown horizontal stripes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> extending from the head to the posterior.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the <\/span><b>upper body<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the snapper is mostly <\/span><b>dark brown to blackish,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> its <\/span><b>median fins <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are<\/span><b> dark reddish brown<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and its paired fins appear translucent pinkish.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/bhubaneswar\/snappers-spotted-at-gopalpur-on-sea-in-a-first-for-india-reports-zsi\/articleshow\/130834608.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lutjanus arakan is a newly recorded snapper species found in Indian waters at Odisha. Know its features, habitat, ecological importance, and marine significance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":102274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7398,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-102285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-lutjanus-arakan","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102341,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102285\/revisions\/102341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}