Indigenous ornamental freshwater ichthyofauna of the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India: status and prospects: Fishes Checklist

Sandipan Gupta; Sourabh Kumarr Dubey; Raman Kumar Trivedi; Bimal Kinkar Chand; Samir Banerjee

doi:10.25607/xxwkfw

Indigenous ornamental freshwater ichthyofauna of the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India: status and prospects: Fishes Checklist

Citation

Gupta S, Dubey S K, Trivedi R K, Chand B K, Banerjee S, Earl C (2023). Indigenous ornamental freshwater ichthyofauna of the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India: status and prospects: Fishes Checklist. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/xxwkfw accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-10-31.

Description

Ornamental fishes are the most popular pet throughout the world and figh demand for these fishes has made them an important component of the world fish trade. India contrfibutes a very meager percentage to the world ornamental fish trade; but considering the high ichthyofaunal diversity it has the potential to compete with the world’s leading ornamental fish producers in the near future. Sundarban Biosphere Reserve has abundant waterbodies with rich fish diversity. Although some research has been carried out on ichthyofaunal resources off the Sundarban; detailed documentafion on freshwater indigenous ornamental ichthyofaunal resources off this region is sill not available. To fill this knowledge gap, the present study has been conducted to list the indigenous ornamental ichthyofaunal resources of the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve along with their conservation status and their prospective utilization for improved livelihood of local communities. Eighty four species belonging to 11 orders, 28 families and 59 genera were collected from the study area with species representing the order Cypriniformes dominating the ichthyofauna. Nine species have been listed as Near Threatened in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Indigenous fish species of the Sundarban having great potential to support domestic as well as the international ornamental fish trade from India in near future. The ornamental fish species would also be able to generate alternate livelihood options for the impecunious communities of the Sundarban. However, serious concern must also be paid to the conservation of these fish species as some of them are under near threatened categories of IUCN Red list.

Purpose

These data were made accessible through UNESCO's eDNA Expeditions project to mobilize available marine species and occurrence datasets from World Heritage Sites.

Sampling Description

Method steps

See Github Project and R Notebook for dataset construction methods

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Fishes

Agnatha
rank: Superclass
Chondrichthyes
rank: unranked
Osteichthyes
rank: unranked

Geographic Coverages

Indian Sundarbans

Bibliographic Citations

Gupta S, Dubey S, Trivedi R, Chand B, & Banerjee S. (2016). Indigenous ornamental freshwater ichthyofauna of the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India: Status and prospects. Journal of Threatened Taxa. 8. 9144. - https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.1888.8.9.9144-9154

Contacts

Sandipan Gupta
originator
University of Calcutta

Sourabh Kumarr Dubey
originator
West Bengal University of Animal & Fishery Science

Raman Kumar Trivedi
originator
West Bengal University of Animal & Fishery Science

Bimal Kinkar Chand
originator
West Bengal University of Animal & Fishery Science

Samir Banerjee
originator
University of Calcutta

Chandra Earl
metadata author
position: eDNA Scientific Officer
UNESCO
email: c.earl@unesco.org

Chandra Earl
processor
position: eDNA Scientific Officer
UNESCO
email: c.earl@unesco.org

OBIS Secretariat
administrative point of contact
position: Secretariat
OBIS
email: helpdesk@obis.org