{"id":213543,"date":"2023-03-24T00:41:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T19:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=213543"},"modified":"2023-03-24T00:41:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T19:11:29","slug":"new-catfish-species-discovered-in-arunachal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/03\/24\/new-catfish-species-discovered-in-arunachal\/","title":{"rendered":"New catfish species discovered in Arunachal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KOLKATA, 23 Mar:<\/strong> A new catfish species has been discovered by scientists of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) in Arunachal Pradesh, a statement said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new species has been named &#8216;Exostoma Dhritiae&#8217; after Dhriti Banerjee, the first woman director of the ZSI, as a mark of honour for her contributions to research on the fauna of the country, it stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new species was found in Siking stream, a tributary of the Siang river in Upper Siang district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is a small fish found in streams in these hills and locally called &#8216;ngorang&#8217; by local tribals,&#8221; it added. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA, 23 Mar: A new catfish species has been discovered by scientists of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) in Arunachal Pradesh, a statement said. The new species has been named &#8216;Exostoma Dhritiae&#8217; after Dhriti Banerjee, the first woman director of the ZSI, as a mark of honour for her contributions to research on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-213543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}