State Of The Art Report On Biodiversity In Indian Sundarbans: Fishes Checklist
Citation
Chatterjee T K, Earl C (2023). State Of The Art Report On Biodiversity In Indian Sundarbans: Fishes Checklist. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/b50xdv accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-17.Description
The dynamics of the fish communities of the Sundarbans are poorly understood. Although there are many published works on the fish fauna of different states of India including that of West Bengal, there is no comprehensive account of the fishes recorded from the Sundarbans. However, the works of Talwar et al. (1992); Mukherjee (1995); Das and Nandi (1999); and Gopal and Chauhan (2006) report the fish diversity of the Sundarbans. Compilations of the species listed in these works reveal that 364 species distributed under 215 genera are available in the Sundarbans as against 4,494 genera world over.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 iOBISTaxonomic Coverages
Fishes
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Agnatharank: Superclass
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Chondrichthyesrank: unranked
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Osteichthyesrank: unranked
Geographic Coverages
Indian Sundarbans
Bibliographic Citations
- Chatterjee, T (2017) State of art report on biodiversity in Indian Sundarbans. Section 2.14. Coastal Fishes. World Wide Fund for Nature-India, New Delhi. -
Contacts
Tapan Kumar Chatterjeeoriginator
JIS University, Kolkata
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