{"id":78305,"date":"2025-12-17T13:25:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=78305"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:48:57","slug":"channa-bhoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/channa-bhoi\/","title":{"rendered":"Channa Bhoi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Channa bhoi Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists recently discovered a new species of snakehead fish named Channa bhoi from Meghalaya.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Channa bhoi<\/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>snakehead fish.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was discovered from a small <\/span><b>mountain stream<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> near Iewmawlong village in the Ri-Bhoi district of <\/span><b>Meghalaya<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been <\/span><b>named <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Channa bhoi, <\/span><b>after the indigenous Bhoi people of the Khasi tribe<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who <\/span><b>inhabit the Ri-Bhoi region.<\/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>\u201cGachua group\u201d of snakehead fishes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a group known for its h<\/span><b>igh diversity in the Eastern Himalayan <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">region.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can be distinguished from its close relatives by a unique colour pattern.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is characterised by a <\/span><b>bluish-grey body<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> marked with <\/span><b>minute black spots on each scale, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">forming eight to nine horizontal rows of broken lines along the sides.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fish also exhibits distinctive banding patterns on its pectoral fins.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phylogenetic analysis identified it as a <\/span><b>sister species to Channa bipuli<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, another snakehead <\/span><b>found in Northeast India.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The discovery brings the total number of Channa species recorded from India to 26.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inshorts.com\/en\/amp_news\/new-snakehead-fish-found-in-meghalaya-s-ri-bhoi--named-channa-bhoi-1765890358825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Channa bhoi is a new species of snakehead fish discovered in Meghalaya. 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