The Freshwater Fish Diversity of Navegaon Bandh, Gondia District, Maharashtra
2017
Swapnil S. Ghatge | Sachin W. Belsare | Shrikant S. Jadhav | Manish Rajankar
Navegaon bandh, a large malguzari tank built in 18th century by Kolu Patel Kohli, is located on the western periphery of the Navegaon National Park in Gondia district of Maharashtra. A study conducted during 2012 to 2015 in co-ordination with a non-governmental organisation Bhandara Nisarg Va Sanskruti Abhyas Mandal, Bhandara at Navegaon bandh for documenting fish diversity is reported in this communication. A total of 55 fish species belonging to under 7 orders 38 genera and 18 families were recorded. Cypriniformes was the dominant order represented by 27 species belonging to 18 genera, followed by Perciformes (12 species and 9 genera), Silurifomres (10 species and 6 genera), Synbranchiformes (3 species and 2 genera), while Beloniformes, Osteoglossiformes and Anguilliformes were represented by one family and one species each. The present findings will form basis for further conservation and management of the resource of this waterbody.
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