{"id":122435,"date":"2026-09-02T14:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=122435"},"modified":"2026-09-02T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:16:00","slug":"dipturus-dhritiae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dipturus-dhritiae\/","title":{"rendered":"Dipturus dhritiae"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Dipturus dhritiae Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), in collaboration with the ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) and international experts, recently discovered a new species of deep-sea skate named Dipturus dhritiae in the southeastern Arabian Sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Dipturus dhritiae<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dipturus dhritiae, commonly called the <\/span><b>Arabian skate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is a new species of <\/span><b>deep-sea skate.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A deep-sea skate is a <\/span><b>flat, shark-related fish<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that lives on the <\/span><b>dark bed of the ocean.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deep-sea skates are particularly <\/span><b>vulnerable to overfishing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because they generally <\/span><b>reproduce slowly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have <\/span><b>few offspring, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and take a long time to recover when their populations decline.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dipturus dhritiae was <\/span><b>discovered <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the<\/span><b> Arabian Sea off India\u2019s southwestern coast.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can grow up to about 1.3 metres in length and was found at depths of 400 to 600 metres off the <\/span><b>Kerala coast<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and in the Wadge Bank region.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of its most noticeable features is<\/span><b> five rows of thorn-like structures along its tail.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is named after <\/span><b>Dr. Dhriti Banerjee,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>first woman Director of the ZSI.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/zsi-scientists-discover-new-deep-sea-skate-species-in-arabian-sea\/amp_articleshow\/133684933.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>TOI<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dipturus dhritiae, commonly called the Arabian skate, is a new species of deep-sea skate. 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