Description
Ornamental fishes are the most popular pet throughout the world and figh demand for these fishes has made them an important component of the world fish trade. India contrfibutes a very meager percentage to the world ornamental fish trade; but considering the high ichthyofaunal diversity it has the potential to compete with the world’s leading ornamental fish producers in the near future. Sundarban Biosphere Reserve has abundant waterbodies with rich fish diversity. Although some research has been carried out on ichthyofaunal resources off the Sundarban; detailed documentafion on freshwater indigenous ornamental ichthyofaunal resources off this region is sill not available. To fill this knowledge gap, the present study has been conducted to list the indigenous ornamental ichthyofaunal resources of the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve along with their conservation status and their prospective utilization for improved livelihood of local communities. Eighty four species belonging to 11 orders, 28 families and 59 genera were collected from the study area with species representing the order Cypriniformes dominating the ichthyofauna. Nine species have been listed as Near Threatened in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Indigenous fish species of the Sundarban having great potential to support domestic as well as the international ornamental fish trade from India in near future. The ornamental fish species would also be able to generate alternate livelihood options for the impecunious communities of the Sundarban. However, serious concern must also be paid to the conservation of these fish species as some of them are under near threatened categories of IUCN Red list.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 84 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Gupta S, Dubey S K, Trivedi R K, Chand B K, Banerjee S, Earl C (2023). Indigenous ornamental freshwater ichthyofauna of the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India: status and prospects: Fishes Checklist. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/xxwkfw
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS Secretariat. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 9613ee46-eb0d-49fe-9ea6-f23bb27adadd. OBIS Secretariat publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
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Geographic Coverage
Indian Sundarbans
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [21.716, 88.716], North East [22.194, 89.06] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Fishes
| Superclass | Agnatha |
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| Unranked | Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2011-01-01 / 2012-12-31 |
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Sampling Methods
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Method step description:
- See Github Project and R Notebook for dataset construction methods
Bibliographic Citations
- Gupta S, Dubey S, Trivedi R, Chand B, & Banerjee S. (2016). Indigenous ornamental freshwater ichthyofauna of the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India: Status and prospects. Journal of Threatened Taxa. 8. 9144. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.1888.8.9.9144-9154
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | These data were made accessible through UNESCO's eDNA Expeditions project to mobilize available marine species and occurrence datasets from World Heritage Sites. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 10.25607/xxwkfw |
| 9613ee46-eb0d-49fe-9ea6-f23bb27adadd | |
| https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=indian-sundarbans-gupta-2016 |