One of the “world’s rare” and assumed extinct fish was rediscovered after 85 years

A rare fish species believed to be extinct for over 80 years was rediscovered in India.

Journal Zootax It was announced on Friday, January 31 that a Chel Snakehead, also known as Channa Amphibious, was resumed after it was adopted.

The freshwater species was not seen for over eight decades after the last registered examples were collected between 1918 and 1933 in the Himalaya region in India. But in 2024, three copies gathered on the beach of the CHEL River in the city of Kalimpong in western Bengal.

Researchers were told that CHEL SNAKEHEAD is consumed by a local tribe, according to ABC News.

The search for the big fish continued in recent decades per ABC news. When the researchers learned about their existence, it took months to find the fish and confirm that the species was not extinct.

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“Usually known as CHEL SNAKEHEAD, this large and lively species of chrome yellow to orange stripes, a light neon patches under the eye and the highest number of side leaf scales among all the Snakhels in the Gachua group,” Thackeray Wildlife Foundation published on Facebook.

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The foundation found that the latest discovery of “this long -standing mystery in Indian Ichthyology reinforces the importance of continued exploration” and “highlights the persistence of biodiversity, even in species that have once been lost to time.”