{"id":8557,"date":"2023-04-17T01:03:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T19:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8557"},"modified":"2025-03-29T03:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:14:09","slug":"garra-laishrami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/garra-laishrami\/","title":{"rendered":"Garra Laishrami"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Garra Laishrami:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a new <strong>cyprinid fish species<\/strong> of the Garra genus found in the <strong>Kolab River<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These are characterised by the presence of a gular disc developed from tissues of the gular region that exhibit variation in the size, shape, and arrangement of the snout tubercles.<\/li>\n<li>It is usually found <strong>under rocks, stones and boulders<\/strong> of torrential streams and rivers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Geographical distribution:<\/strong> Borneo, southern China and <strong>southern Asia<\/strong> through Middle East Asia, Arabian Peninsula and East Africa to West Africa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Key facts about Kolab<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as the <strong>Sabari River<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the main <strong>tributaries of Godavari.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It originates from the western slopes of Eastern Ghats in Odisha state from the <strong>Sinkaram hill ranges<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It forms the <strong>common boundary between<\/strong> <strong>Chhattisgarh and Odisha<\/strong> states and later enters Andhra Pradesh to merge with River Godavari.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Tributaries?<\/h3>\n<p>Tributaries are smaller streams or rivers that flow into a larger stream or river, known as the mainstem. They can originate from a variety of sources, such as snowmelt, rainwater, springs, or groundwater.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/states\/odisha\/2023\/apr\/16\/cuo-researchers-find-rarefreshwater-species-in-kolab-river-in-odisha-2566425.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>CUO researchers find rare freshwater species in Kolab River in Odisha<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garra Laishrami is a new cyprinid fish species of the Garra genus found in the Kolab River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8557","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\/8557","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=8557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}