Transcaspian marinka:
Sangon clan in Arunachal Pradesh has launched an initiative to conserve a Himalayan ray-finned fish Transcaspian marinka (Schizothorax pelzami).
- Transcaspian marinka is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Schizothorax in the family Cyprinidae.
- It is mainly found in Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Iran.
- It inhabits freshwater rivers, streams, springs, and qanats, where it occupies a benthopelagic niche.
- It is locally known as Ngarsing in the Nyishi language in Arunachal Pradesh.
- Conservation Status:
- IUCN: Least Concern
- Actinopterygians, or ‘ray-finned fishes,’ are the largest and most successful group of fishes and make up half of all living vertebrates.
- Ray-finned fishes inhabit a variety of extreme environments. These include high altitude lakes and streams, desert springs and subterranean caves.
- Many ray-finned fishes exhibit migratory behavior.
- It perceives the external environment in five major ways – vision, mechanoreception, chemoreception, electroreception and magnetic reception.
