The Ministry of Environment and Forests notified the Ganges River Dolphin as the National Aquatic Animal today. The River Dolphin inhabits the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna and Karnaphuli-Sangu river systems of Nepal, India , and Bangladesh. National Aquatic Animal of India The Ganges River Dolphin, originally discovered in 1801, is the National aquatic animal of India . The Central Government of India declared this on the 18th of May 2010 officially. The National Ganga River Basin Authority is an ambitious project of the Government that aims to reclaim the lost glory of the Ganga ... The National Fish or the National Aquatic Animal of India is the Ganges River Dolphin. It is the official animal of the Indian city of Guwahati. The biological name of this dolphin is Platanista gangetica. It is most commonly known as 'susu'. It is called 'sisu' in the Assamese language and 'shishuk' in the Bengali Language. In Indian mythology, it is associated with Ganga and is depicted as her banana or animal carriage. Distribution of National Aquatic Animal : It lives along the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna and Karnaphuli-Sangu river systems of Bangladesh and India , and the Sapta Koshi and Karnali Rivers in Nepal. The Ganges river dolphin favours deep pools, eddy countercurrents located downstream of the convergence of rivers and of sharp meanders, and upstream and downstream of midchannel islands.
