Changing Fluvio-dynamic Scenario of the Adi Ganga River, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Author(s):  
Atanu Mandal
2008 ◽  
Vol 157 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 97-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Wasim Aktar ◽  
M. Paramasivam ◽  
Daipayan Sengupta ◽  
Swarnali Purkait ◽  
Madhumita Ganguly ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Suchismita Medda ◽  
Santi Ranjan Dey

Murshidabad is a district of West Bengal, India and situated on the eastern bank of river Hooghly, a distributary of river Ganga. Although, many studies on fish ecology and fish systematics have been conducted largely to improve fisheries but fish diversity and their distribution pattern from conservation point of view have never been adequately addressed in the Ganga River. In this present study priority was given to prepare a consolidated list of fish fauna that have been found in the part of river Ganga which flows through the District Murshidabad. 74 species belonging to 9 orders and 24 families are found in the river Ganga of Murshidabad district. Family Cyprinidae representing highest number of species viz. 21. The order Cypriniformes is represented by 26 species followed by order Siluriformes containing 20 species.


Planta Medica ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 73 (09) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Gangopadhyay ◽  
R Bhattacharya ◽  
D Chakraborty ◽  
S Bhattacharya ◽  
A Mitra ◽  
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