BACKGROUND Catfishes are globally demanded as human food, angling sport and aquariums keeping thus are highly exploited all over the world. North-East India possess high abundance of catfishes and are equally exploited through decades. The strategies for conservation necessitate understanding the actual species composition, which is hampered due to sporadic descriptions of the species through t...

Abstract. Budiariati V, Susmiati T, Waroh S, Putri RCA, Widayanti R. 2021. Genetic diversity of indigenous catfish from Indonesia based on mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit II gene. Biodiversitas 22: 593-600. Catfish is one the most demanding fish in and served a variety traditional culinary. Due to their identical morphology close relation between species order Siluriformes, it quite tr...

Morphometric characteristics, length-weight relationships (LWRs), and condition factors (K) were studied for five indigenous fish species belonging to different families (Barilius barila Hamilton, Cirrhinus reba Chanda nama Mystus bleekeri Day, Clupisoma garua Hamilton), from the River Ganga in Bihar, India. A total of 557 individuals collected seasonally September 2021 August 2022 using a mono...

Accumulation of chromium (Cr) was determined in water, sediment, aquatic plants, invertebrates and fish in aquatic ecosystems receiving effluents from handloom textile industries in Ranaghat-Fulia region of West Bengal in India. Cr was determined in the samples by atomic absorption spectrophotometer and data were analyzed functionally by Genetic Algorithm to determine trend of depositions of Cr...