{"id":23183,"date":"2024-05-08T03:55:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T22:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23183"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:21:03","slug":"glyptothorax-punyabratai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/glyptothorax-punyabratai\/","title":{"rendered":"Glyptothorax punyabratai"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Glyptothorax punyabratai:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The species was collected from Tung Stream, a tributary of the Tissa River, in <strong>the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/brahma-2d\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brahmaputra River<\/a><strong> basin.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a new <strong>catfish species.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Facts about Catfish<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Catfish represent one of the largest groups of freshwater fishes, with more than 2000 species.<\/li>\n<li>Most catfish are <strong>found in freshwater<\/strong> but a <strong>few are marine.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Most species of catfish are <strong>nocturnal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Catfish are primarily benthic or bottom-dwellers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Most catfish have a cylindrical body with a flattened ventral to allow for benthic feeding.<\/li>\n<li>Catfish are so-named <strong>because of the long barbels,<\/strong> or feelers, which are present about the mouth of the fish and resemble cat whiskers.<\/li>\n<li>Most catfish possess leading spines in their dorsal and pectoral fins.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Catfish <strong>are scaleless,<\/strong> a characteristic of catfishes distinguishing them from others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Invertebrates?<\/h3>\n<p>Invertebrates are characterized by their lack of a backbone or vertebral column. Instead, they have other structural features that support and protect their bodies. Invertebrates comprise a vast array of animal groups, including insects, spiders, crustaceans, mollusks etc<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/krishijagran.com\/news\/new-catfish-species-discovered-in-arunachal-pradesh-by-icar-nbfgr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Catfish Species Discovered in Arunachal Pradesh by ICAR-NBFGR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glyptothorax punyabratai is a new catfish species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23183","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}