Scientists from ICAR-National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, working on India's fish genetic resources for intellectual property protection and sustainable utilisation, have discovered a new species of eel from among specimen collected from the Kalamukku fishing harbour near Kochi city.
The newly discovered eel belongs to the congrid eels group and has been named Ariosoma Maurostigma (Two-spot short tail conger). The species name was derived from two Greek words - ‘mauro’, which means dark, and ‘stigma’, which means mark, referring to the black dark mark on the posterodorsal margin of the eyes.
