Area in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg named as biodiversity heritage site
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A brand new freshwater fish species — Schistura Hiranyakeshi — was found close to Amboli in Sawantwadi tehsil of Sindhudurg district.
The Maharashtra authorities on Wednesday declared an space at Amboli in Western ghats in Sindhudurg district, the place a uncommon freshwater fish species was found, as a biodiversity heritage site.
Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s son Tejas Thackeray, who’s a wildlife researcher, and his workforce had found the brand new freshwater fish species — Schistura Hiranyakeshi — close to Amboli in Sawantwadi tehsil of Sindhudurg district.
Schistura Hiranyakeshi is a uncommon sub-species of Schistura, a freshwater loach. The fish was named after the Hiranyakeshi river close to Amboli village.
The State authorities on Wednesday issued a notification declaring the world at Amboli as a biodiversity heritage site.
Earlier, the State authorities had declared the Glory of Allapalli in Gadchiroli district, Landor Khori Park in Jalgaon, Ganesh Khind in Pune, myristica swamp vegetation in Sindhudurg district as biodiversity heritage websites.
Schistura is a small and vibrant fish that lives in water and streams in an abundance of oxygen.
“The decision to declare the habitat of these freshwater species as the bio-diversity heritage site is taken because it is rare species, and due to fishing activities, it might have faced extinction. It was important to conserve the species,” reads the federal government notification.
The discoveries of the freshwater fish species had been revealed in the International Journal of Ichthyology in the October 2020 version by Tejas Thackeray and co-authors.
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