{"id":29906,"date":"2025-02-05T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T03:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29906"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:48:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:18:49","slug":"gambusia-affinis-and-poecilia-reticulata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gambusia-affinis-and-poecilia-reticulata\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambusia Affinis and Poecilia Reticulata"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Gambusia Affinis (Mosquitofish) and Poecilia Reticulata (Guppy) Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the National Green Tribunal has asked for a response from the Central government on the use of Gambusia Affinis (Mosquitofish) and Poecilia Reticulata (Guppy) as biological mosquito control agents.<\/p>\n<h2>About Gambusia Affinis (Mosquitofish)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is known as <strong>mosquito fish,<\/strong> and is widely used as a biological agent for <strong>controlling mosquito larvae.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is native to the waters of the <strong>south-eastern United States.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has been a part of mosquito-control strategies for over a century in various parts of the world, including India.<\/li>\n<li>Also, it has been part of various malaria control strategies in India since 1928, including the <strong>Urban Malaria Scheme.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The International Union for Conservation of Nature declared Gambusia one of the 100 worst <strong>invasive alien species in the world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The states which stored and released Mosquitofish were Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>About Poecilia Reticulata (Guppy)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a small <strong>benthopelagic <\/strong>fish native to Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela and the Caribbean Islands.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> It is a <strong>non-migratory<\/strong> fish that can <strong>inhabit both fresh and brackish water.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>popular aquarium species<\/strong> and is also commonly used in genetics research.<\/li>\n<li>It can occupy a wide range of aquatic habitats and is a threat to native cyprinids and killifishes. It is a carrier of exotic parasites and is believed to play a role in the decline of several threatened and endangered species.<\/li>\n<li>It has been released in <strong>Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab and Odisha.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Gambusia Affinis (Mosquitofish) and Poecilia Reticulata (Guppy) FAQs\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> What is the common name for Gambusia fish?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>: Western mosquitofish<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong> Which fish is used to control mosquito population?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>: Gambusia affinis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3: <\/strong>What is Poecilia reticulata known as?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>: It is also known as millionfish or the rainbow fish<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/india\/ngt-issues-notice-to-centre-on-use-of-invasive-fish-species-for-mosquito-control-3385365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gambusia Affinis (Mosquitofish) and Poecilia Reticulata (Guppy) are being used as biological mosquito control agents in many Indian states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29906","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\/29906","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=29906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}