Ichthyofaunal Diversity Of Krishna River Dist...

Ichthyofaunal Diversity Of Krishna River District Shamli, Uttar Pradesh (India)

Author Name : Neeraj Malik, Praveen Kumar, Shashank Baghel

ABSTRACT

The studies of fish fauna of different water bodies were made by different workers. However, the study of ichthyofauna of the Krishna River, District Shamli, Uttar Pradesh is scanty. The study area was of 35 km. stretch in district Shamli, for three different sites of river Krishna. The study revealed the presence of 12 species of fishes of order Cypriniformes, Perciformes, Siluriformes, Synbranchiformes and Osteoglossiformes. These fishes belong to 6 families which were Cyprinidae, Channidae, Siluridae, Bagridae, Mastacembelidae and Notopteridae. Cyprinidae family is dominant over other families. The paper describes the detailed species composition, their relative contribution and some important points that may be helpful to understand current scenario of ichthyofaunal diversity of river Krishna in a better way.

Key words - Krishna River, Diversity, Cyprinidae