{"id":93215,"date":"2026-03-17T12:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=93215"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:58:09","slug":"butis-bargabhimae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/butis-bargabhimae\/","title":{"rendered":"Butis bargabhimae"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Butis bargabhimae Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists in West Bengal recently identified a new species of estuarine fish named Butis bargabhimae.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Butis bargabhimae<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a new species of <\/span><b>estuarine fish.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was found in the <\/span><b>Rupnarayan River (tributary of the Hooghly <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">River) near Tamluk, <\/span><b>West Bengal.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It belongs to the <\/span><b>butid family,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a <\/span><b>group of fish <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">commonly <\/span><b>known as gudgeon goby<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that <\/span><b>typically live in the brackish waters <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">where rivers meet the sea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While most of its cousins have smooth areas around their eyes, this new fish features <\/span><b>unique scales between its eyes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (known as interorbital scales) and <\/span><b>additional auxiliary scales across its body.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also sports distinctive <\/span><b>light and dark bands on its pectoral fins,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which are missing in similar species.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>species name,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> bargabhimae, is a <\/span><b>tribute to the Hindu deity Bargabhima<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a significant cultural and <\/span><b>religious figure in the Tamluk area <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of West Bengal.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/researchmatters.in\/news\/scientists-identify-new-gudgeon-goby-fish-species-indias-rupnarayan-river\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Butis bargabhimae is a new species of estuarine fish found in the Rupnarayan River (tributary of the Hooghly River) near Tamluk, West Bengal. Read more about Butis bargabhimae, Habitat, Family, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":93234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6143,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-93215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-butis-bargabhimae","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93215","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93269,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93215\/revisions\/93269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}