{"id":116468,"date":"2026-08-01T12:59:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=116468"},"modified":"2026-08-01T12:59:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:29:52","slug":"pseudolaguvia-khairii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pseudolaguvia-khairii\/","title":{"rendered":"Pseudolaguvia khairii"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Pseudolaguvia khairii Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers recently discovered a new species of freshwater catfish named Pseudolaguvia khairii in Odisha.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Pseudolaguvia khairii<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a new species of <\/span><b>freshwater catfish.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was discovered in the <\/span><b>Budhabalanga River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Mayurbhanj district, <\/span><b>Odisha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was named in<\/span><b> honour of the legendary tigress Khairi,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who became the<\/span><b> face of wildlife conservation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a unique <\/span><b>human-animal bond in Odisha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> nearly<\/span><b> five decades ago.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It belongs to the <\/span><b>genus Pseudolaguvia,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a <\/span><b>group of small hillstream catfishes <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inhabiting the <\/span><b>clear, fast-flowing rivers of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Myanmar.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only a few centimetres long, Pseudolaguvia khairii can be distinguished from all its known relatives by a <\/span><b>unique fleshy protuberance at the base of its dorsal fin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a feature not previously recorded in the genus.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/lifestyle\/environment\/2026\/Jul\/31\/new-catfish-from-odishas-budhabalanga-named-after-legendary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NIE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pseudolaguvia khairii is a new species of freshwater catfish. Read more about Pseudolaguvia khairii, Discovery, Habitat, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":116459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9151],"class_list":["post-116468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-pseudolaguvia-khairii","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116468","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=116468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116491,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116468\/revisions\/116491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}