Meghalaya: World’s largest cavefish named after Pnar community

Guwahati: The largest known cavefish from Meghalaya has been named after the state’s indigenous Pnar community.

Roughly three years back, an international team of cave explorers from India and other countries encountered a new cavefish in Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya and a return visit was made in January to gather more information on the fish.

But they could not ascertain the fish species. Dan Harries of Grampian Speleological Group was one of the members of the expedition.