{"id":86952,"date":"2019-08-30T18:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T12:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9705"},"modified":"2019-08-30T18:05:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T12:35:34","slug":"two-new-eel-species-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/two-new-eel-species-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new eel species discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Two new species of marine eel have been discovered\nand documented by Estuarine Biology Regional Centre (EBRC) of the Zoological\nSurvey of India (ZSI) at Gopalpur-on-sea in Odisha.<\/li><li>One of them is a short brown un-patterned moray\neel. It has been named \u2018Gymnothorax andamanensesis\u2019.<\/li><li>Another species discovered was a white-spotted\nmoray eel which has been named \u2018Gymnothorax smithi\u2019<\/li><li>Marine eels are mostly found in shallow waters\nbut some of them live offshore in sandy or clayey bottoms ranging up to 500\nmetres.<\/li><li>The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) is the premier Indian organization,\nunder Environment Ministry for zoological research and studies to promote the\nsurvey, exploration and research of the fauna in India. It was established in\n1960. It is headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new species of marine eel have been discovered and documented by Estuarine Biology Regional Centre (EBRC) of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) at Gopalpur-on-sea in Odisha. One of them is a short brown un-patterned moray eel. It has been named \u2018Gymnothorax andamanensesis\u2019. Another species discovered was a white-spotted moray eel which has been&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/two-new-eel-species-discovered\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two new eel species discovered<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4658],"class_list":["post-86952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-eel","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704879172},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86952","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}