{"id":87106,"date":"2020-01-08T16:14:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T10:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12793"},"modified":"2020-01-08T16:14:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T10:44:34","slug":"chinese-paddlefish-found-in-the-yangtze-has-gone-extinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chinese-paddlefish-found-in-the-yangtze-has-gone-extinct\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese paddlefish found in the Yangtze has gone extinct"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>According to a recent study,Chinese paddlefish which is a native of the Yangtze River system has been declared extinct.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Chinese Paddlefish:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Chinese Paddlefish is also known as Chinese swordfish.It is one of the world\u2019s largest freshwater fish species.<\/li><li>It inhabits the Yangtze River basin.The largest Chinese paddlefish may grow up to 3 metres in length and weigh 300 kg.<\/li><li>It has been listed on the IUCN\u2019s Red List as critically endangered since 1996.However,Scientists have now declared it as an extinct species.<\/li><li>The Chinese Paddlefish along with American Paddlefish were the only two extant members of a relict lineage that was most diverse and widespread 34-75 million years ago.<\/li><li>The factors that contributed to the Chinese paddlefish\u2019s extinction includes (a)construction of a dam along the Yangtze River basin (b)overfishing (c)habitat loss and (d)pollution.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong>American paddlefish is a native of the Mississippi River.It is listed as vulnerable under IUCN Red list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:According to a recent study,Chinese paddlefish which is a native of the Yangtze River system has been declared extinct. Facts: About Chinese Paddlefish: Chinese Paddlefish is also known as Chinese swordfish.It is one of the world\u2019s largest freshwater fish species. It inhabits the Yangtze River basin.The largest Chinese paddlefish may grow up to 3 metres&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chinese-paddlefish-found-in-the-yangtze-has-gone-extinct\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese paddlefish found in the Yangtze has gone extinct<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"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":[4844],"class_list":["post-87106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-chinese-peddlefish","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87106","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\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}