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Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius): Gone Extinct

Part of: GS Prelims and GS-III- Environment Conservation

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It is a freshwater fish, dating back from 200 million years ago whose ancestral home was the Yangtze River.
It is also known as Chinese swordfish with a snot like structure packed with cells to detect electrical activity in prey animals such as crustaceans

It is declared extinct by Chinese researchers based on the Red List criteria of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Overfishing and habitat fragmentation — including dam building — caused its population to dwindle from the 1970s onward

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