About Ariosoma cmfriense:
- It is a new species of conger eel.
- Conger eels are powerful fish with an elongated, snake-like body which is smooth and scaleless.
- It was found in the waters off Kollam, Kerala.
- The discovery was made by scientists from the ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, as part of the research component under the Deep Ocean Mission (DOM), a national programme of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES).
