Dibrugarh, July 5 -- A new species of cyprinid fish has been discovered in the Brahmaputra River at Maijan in the Dibrugarh district of Assam, marking a significant addition to the ichthyofaunal diversity of Northeast India's river systems.

The species has been named Pethia dibrugarhensis, in reference to its place of origin.

The discovery was made during a freshwater faunal survey of the Brahmaputra, carried out by a team of scientists from the ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (ICAR-CIFRI), Guwahati regional centre; ICAR-CIFRI, Barrackpore; and Manipur University. The findings were recently published in the international peer-reviewed journal National Academy Science Letters by Springer Nature.

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