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Indigenous Ornamental Fish Faunal Diversity in Paschim Medinipur,West Bengal, India

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Author Affiliations

  • 1PG Department of Zoology, Raja N.L. Khan Women’s College, Midnapur, Paschim Medinipur, Westbengal, INDIA

Int. Res. J. Biological Sci., Volume 3, Issue (6), Pages 94-100, June,10 (2014)

Abstract

Ornamental fishes are very sweet in their colour, peculiar and playful behaviour for which they are called ‘living jewels’. At present ornamental fish industry is growing rapidly. India has a good resource of natural ornamental fishes. West Bengal is also a wide repository of indigenous ornamental freshwater as well as marine water fish resources having both commercial as well as biological important. Paschim Medinipur is a districts where there is no marine zone. Therefore, it represents only it’s freshwater indigenous fish resources. In the present study, different rivers and water bodies of Paschim Medinipur have been surveyed thoroughly for natural indigenous ornamental fish diversity. A total number of 48 indigenous ornamental freshwater species belonging to 32 genera, 18 families and 7 order were collected and identified according to the existing literature, during the survey period. Among all the collected specimens family Cyprinidae shows maximum number of species followed by Bagridae and Ambassidae .Present study shows that a good number of ornamental icthyofauna are under IUCN category and needed to be conserved.

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