{"id":46061,"date":"2025-04-24T16:08:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T10:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=46061"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T09:46:52","slug":"labeo-uru-and-labeo-chekida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/labeo-uru-and-labeo-chekida\/","title":{"rendered":"Labeo Uru and Labeo Chekida"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Labeo Uru and Labeo Chekida Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Labeo Uru and Labeo Chekida, two new species of freshwater Rohu fish, have been discovered in the Western Ghats region of India.<\/p>\n<h2>About Labeo Uru and Labeo Chekida<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Labeo uru and Labeo chekida are newly identified freshwater fish species belonging to the Rohu group (genus Labeo), discovered by ICAR-NBFGR scientists in the Western Ghats.<\/li>\n<li>Labeo uru was found in the Chandragiri River and is named for its distinctive sail-like dorsal fin.<\/li>\n<li>Labeo chekida, locally known as \u2018kaka chekida\u2019, is a small, dark-bodied fish discovered in the Chalakkudy River.<\/li>\n<li>The discovery resolves the long-standing taxonomic confusion with Labeo nigrescens, first described in 1870, by confirming the distinct identities of all three species based on unique morphological traits.<\/li>\n<li>This breakthrough highlights the rich and previously undocumented fish biodiversity of the Western Ghats, a recognised global biodiversity hotspot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Kochi\/two-new-fish-species-discovered-in-western-ghats-resolving-155-year-old-taxonomic-puzzle\/article69482931.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover Labeo Uru and Labeo Chekida, two newly identified Rohu fish species from the Western Ghats, adding to the region&#8217;s rich aquatic biodiversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[248,246,21,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-46061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-labeo-uru-and-labeo-chekida","9":"tag-prelims-current-affairs","10":"tag-prelims-pointers","11":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46061","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}