India, May 21 -- A team of Indian researchers have rediscovered fish species Moringua hodgarti in Arunachal Pradesh's Siang Valley after over a century. The records of the species was first collected during the Abor Expedition of 1911-1912 in Arunachal Pradesh.

The discovery and analysis of the fish species measuring around 177 mm to 211 mm and commonly known as swamp eels has been published in the latest edition of Zootaxa, a peer-reviewed journal for animal taxonomists, published on Monday.

"We report the rediscovery of this species after 110 years, and provide a re-description based on freshly collected specimens... This species is known only from the Siang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh," the team of researchers that comprised Nilanjan...