Fish diversity of Indian Sundarban and its resource and research prospects: Fishes Checklist

Subhrendu S Mishra; K C Gopi

doi:10.25607/ufguzy

Fish diversity of Indian Sundarban and its resource and research prospects: Fishes Checklist

Citation

Mishra S S, Gopi K C, Earl C (2023). Fish diversity of Indian Sundarban and its resource and research prospects: Fishes Checklist. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/ufguzy accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-10-05.

Description

The updated list of fishes of Sundarban gives information of about 350 species belonging to 225 genera, 86 families distributed in 25 orders occurring in this region. Cartilaginous fishes or Elasmobranchs comprise only 10.3% of fishes known, i.e., 36 species belonging to 21 genera, 10 families and 6 orders.The rest, 314 species (89.7%) in 204 genera, 76 families and 19 orders are bony fishes. Among the fishes occurring in Indian Sundarban, the family Gobiidae is the most diverse group with 40 species, followed by Sciaenidae (18 spp.) and Engraulidae (17 spp.).The highest representation of elasmobranchs is by the gray sharks (Carcharhinidae, 10 spp.), followed by stingrays (Dasyatidae, 9 spp.).

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

Mishra S & Gopi, KC. (2017). Fish diversity of Indian Sundarban and its resource and research prospects. -

Contacts

Subhrendu S Mishra
originator
Zoological Survey of India

K C Gopi
originator
Zoological Survey of India

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