The New Indian Express ·
Skate landed at Sakthikulangara turns out to be a new species
KOLLAM: A skate landed as bycatch at the Sakthikulangara Fishing Harbour in Kollam has turned out to be a species new to science, highlighting the rich and poorly explored biodiversity of the deep waters off the Keralam coast.
Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) and the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) have described the species as Dipturus dhritiae, commonly called the Arabian Skate.
The findings were published in the Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation on August 28.
