{"id":262904,"date":"2023-10-05T19:07:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T13:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=262904"},"modified":"2023-10-05T20:20:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T14:50:27","slug":"this-newly-discovered-fish-can-change-its-colour-like-a-chameleon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/this-newly-discovered-fish-can-change-its-colour-like-a-chameleon\/","title":{"rendered":"This newly discovered fish can change its colour like a chameleon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>This newly discovered fish can change its colour like a chameleon<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> \u201cDown To Earth\u201d on 4th October 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists have discovered a new fish species from the Milak river, Nagaland.It has been named as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Badis limaakumi.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is <\/b><b>Badis Limaakumi?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-262905\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/download-3.jpeg?resize=299%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Down To Earth<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Badis limaakumi<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a freshwater fish<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">belongs to the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Badidae family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fish is commonly found in streams with slow or moderate water flow, in ditches and stagnant water bodies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fish is found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand and Myanmar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This new species of fish differs from other members of its family due to distinctive features<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, such as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a dark opercular blotch <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at the base of its <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">opercular spine and the absence of spots on its sides and cleithrum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 Note:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fish from the Badis family are also known as chameleon fish for their ability to change colour.This helps them blend with the surroundings when under stress.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cThis newly discovered fish can change its colour like a chameleon\u201d published in \u201cDown To Earth\u201d on 4th October 2023 What is the News? Scientists have discovered a new fish species from the Milak river, Nagaland.It has been named as Badis limaakumi.\u00a0 What is Badis Limaakumi? Source:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/this-newly-discovered-fish-can-change-its-colour-like-a-chameleon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This newly discovered fish can change its colour like a chameleon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9,11834],"tags":[11872,10504],"class_list":["post-262904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","category-species-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-down-to-earth","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":56,"cached_at":1698384047,"cached_date":1698414349},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}