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

Subhrendu S Mishra1, K C Gopi1, Chandra Earl2, Chandra Earl3

1 Zoological Survey of India, ; 2 UNESCO, ; 3 UNESCO, 

Corresponding author(s): Subhrendu S MishraK C Gopi, Chandra Earl (c.earl@unesco.org)

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Resource 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 https://doi.org/10.25607/ufguzy

Abstract

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.).

Keywords: Occurrence

General description

Purpose: These data were made accessible through UNESCO's eDNA Expeditions project to mobilize available marine species and occurrence datasets from World Heritage Sites.
Additional information: marine, harvested by iOBIS

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=indian-sundarbans-mishra-2017

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Fishes
Taxonomic ranks
Unranked: Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Indian Sundarbans
Coordinates: 21°42'57.24''N and 22°11'36.96''N Latitude; 88°42'58.32''E and 89°3'34.92''E Longitude 

Methods

Method step description: See Github <a href="https://github.com/iobis/mwhs-data-mobilization">Project</a> and <a href="https://iobis.github.io/mwhs-data-mobilization/notebooks/the_sundarbans/Mishra_2017"> R Notebook</a> for dataset construction methods

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Fish diversity of Indian Sundarban and its resource and research prospects: Fishes Checklist
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/archive.do?r=indian-sundarbans-mishra-2017
Publication date of data: 2023-09-13
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2023-09-12
Hierarchy level: Dataset

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