Fish diversity of Narmada River at Chandan Ghat in Dindori District (M.P.)

Abstract

The present study deals Fish diversity of Narmada River at Chandan Ghat in Dindori District (M.P.) during period June 2019 to May 2020 to census and commercially important fishes in the Narmada River. Narmada River is the largest Westward flowing river of India. It is also referred as the life line of Madhya Pradesh. Present study was aimed to generate information on the fishes of Chandan Ghat of river Narmada. The present study has been conducted to assess the fish biodiversity in a stretch of Narmada River in Madhya Pradesh. The results of present investigation reveal the occurrence of 42 fish species belonging to 6 orders, 15 families and 24 genera. Among the collected species, order Cypriniformes was most dominant constituting 47.62% followed by order Siluriformes constituting 11.90% order Perciformes constituting 21.43% orders Osteoglossiformes 4.76% and Synbranchiformes constituting 9.52% and orders Beloniformes constituting 4.76% of the total fish species.

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“…This is the first study in this field, and several indigenous, commercially important, and economically valuable fish have been discovered. (Namdeo and Singh 2021) [3] . Some studies were conducted on the Study on Species Diversity and Assemblage of Fish Fauna of Jamner River: A Tributary of the Narmada River (Vishwakarma and Vyas, 2014) [4] The fish fauna of the Bharathapuzha River in Kerala (Biju Kumar & Sushama, 1999) [5] and the Barna Stream Network in the Narmada basin (Central India) were also studied (Vishwakarma et al, 2014) [4] .…”