Sri Lankan Freshwater Fishes PDF Download

Author: Madura De Silva
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789550954018
Category : Freshwater fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 391

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Author: Rohan Pethiyagoda
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789559114000
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Author: Jan H.A. Mol
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004207651
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 899

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With some 480 currently known fresh- and brackish-water fish species, Suriname has a rich inland fish fauna that is related to the most diverse freshwater fish fauna on planet Earth, i.e. that of the Amazon River. Interest in the freshwater fishes of Suriname by naturalists and scientists extends back over more than two centuries. Suriname is undoubtedly the site of origin of the oldest extant preserved specimens of South American fishes and 19 Surinamese fish species were described and figured by Linnaeus. Building on ichthyological studies initiated in the 1960s by the Brokopondo Project, this book provides an introduction to the freshwater fish fauna of Suriname, including identification keys, photographs of the species and descriptions of their habitats, that should be especially useful to decision makers, conservation biologists, aquarium hobbyists and eco-tourists.

Author: Arjan Rajasuriya
Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9550205274
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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The hope is that this field guide, along with its companion, volume 1, will be useful resources for snorkelers, divers, and all those interested in marine life in expanding their knowledge on identification of species found in the reef habitats of Sri Lanka.

Author: Channa N. B. Bambaradeniya
Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9558177512
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Author: Gerry Closs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107040116
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 601

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A global assessment of the current state of freshwater fish biodiversity and the opportunities and challenges to conservation.

Author: Ian Stafford Ross Munro
Publisher: Daya Books
ISBN: 9788176220446
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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An Important Throughly Illustrated, And Exhaustive Work That Lists, Classifies And Describes All The Known Fish Fauna Of Ceylon. Offers A Systematic Enumeration Of The Entire Range Of Fishes Under Two Broad Classes - Elasmobranchii And Teleostomi 28 Different Orders, Various Sub Orders And Families, And Over 800 Species. All The Necessary Details And Data Have Been Provided For Each Of The Species Under Its Description. And For An Easier Identification, There Is An Illustration Corresponding To Each Of The Species. The Utility Of The Text, For The Concerned Scholars And Researchers, Has Been Enhanced By Incorporating A Meticulously Compiled Glossary Of Technical Terms; Aptly Labelled Sketches; A List Of Over 100 References To Relevant Literature; And A Comprehensive Index With Cross References To Scientific Names And Vernacular Names In The English, Sinhalese And Tamil Languages. Needless To Mention That The Book Has A High And Lasting Reference Value. Contents Part 1- Sharks, Skates And Rays (Class Elasmo-Branchii); Chapter 1: Sharks (Order Lamniforms); Chapter 2: Saw-Fishes, Skates And Rays (Order Rajiformes); Chapter 3: Electric Rays (Order Torpediniformes); Part 2- Bony Fish (Class Teleostomi); Chapter 4: Herring-Like Fishes (Order Clupeiformes); Chapter 5: Deep-Sea Lantern Fishes, Lizard-Fishes (Order Scopeliformes); Chapter 6: Carps, Barbs, Loaches And Cat-Fish (Order Cypriniformes); Chapter 7: Eels, Moryas, Congers (Order Anguilliformes); Chapter 8: Deep-Sea Lizard-Fish (Order Halosauriformes); Chapter 9: Garfish, Needle-Fish, Half-Beaks, Flying Fish (Order Beloniforms); Chapter 10: Deep-Sea Cod (Order Gadiformes); Chapter 11: Rat-Tails, Whip-Tails (Order Macruriformes); Chapter 12: Pipe Fish, Sea Horses, Flute Mouths, Razor Fish (Order Syngnathiformes); Chapter 13: Top-Minnows, Killifish (Order Cyprinodontiformes); Chapter 14: Red-Fish, Slime Heads, Knight Fish Soldier Fish (Order Beryciformes); Chapter 15: Boar Fish (Order Zeiformes); Chapter 16: Pike, Barracuda, Grey Mullet, Hardyheads (Order Mugiliformes); Chapter 17: Thread-Fins, Tassel Fish (Order Polynemiformes); Chapter 18: Snake-Heads (Order Ophiocephaliformes); Chapter 19: Shore Eels (Order Symbranchiformes); Chapter 20: Perch-Like Fishes (Order Perciformes); Suborder Percoidei, Suborder Blennioidei, Suborder Ophidioidei, Suborder Callionymoidei, Suborder Siganoidei, Suborder Acanthuroidei, Suborder Trichiuroidei, Suborder Scombroidei, Suborder Stromatroidei, Suborder Anabantoidei, Suborder Kurtoidei, Suborder Gobioidei, Suborder Cottoidei; Chapter 21: Flying Gurnards (Order Dactylopteriformes); Chapter 22: Flatfishes, Soles, Flounders (Order Pleuronectiformes); Chapter 23: Spiny Eels (Order Mastacembeliformes); Chapter 24: Suckerfish, Remoras (Order Echeneiformes); Chapter 25: Trigger-Fish, File-Fish, Leather-Jackets, Box-Fish, Globe-Fish, File-Fish, Sun-Fish (Order Tetradontiformes); Suborder Balistoidei, Suborder Ostracioidei, Suborder Tetradontoidei, Suborder Moloidei; Chapter 26: Frogfish (Order Batrachoidiformes); Chapter 27: Angler-Fish, Monkfish, Handfish, Fishing Frogfish (Order Lophiformes); Chapter 28: Dragon-Fish (Order Pegasiformes).

Author: Maurice Kottelat
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 668

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Standard reference to the freshwater fishes of Europe covering 546 native and 33 introduced species. Includes diagnoses for all species with keys to genera and species, methods for identification, notes on habitat, biology, ecology, native, extirpated and introduced distributions, species conservation status (validated through IUCN procedures), uptodate taxonomy and nomenclature using modern methods and concepts. Included is a bibliography of more than 870 references.

Author: K. C. Jayaram
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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This book is an up to date compendium of all information available up to 1997 in respect of the freshwater fish fauna of this region . The classification adopted is generally after Nelson's Fishes of the World (1994), Howes (1991) with inputs from Eschmeyer's Genera of Fishes (1990). For Cyprinine genera the order of an arrangement proposed by Rainborth (1991) has been adhered to. In respect of nemacheilines the arrangement proposed by Banarescu and Nalbant (1995), Kottelat (1990) have been followed. As indicated in the title the Indian region as conceived here includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Mayanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka within their political boundaries. Afghanistan and other border areas excluded. All primary freshwater fishes are definitely listed and many secondary and peripheral species that visit freshwater are also included. A uniform pattern of citation is adopted. Brief salient features of all the taxa up to orders are given. Descriptive details in respect of families and genera are provided more elaborately. Synonymies include the latest valid name, first reference, type-designations and more important pertinent references to that taxa. All citations have been checked, and cross-checked with the aid of Eschmeyer's work. Species are not described but listed alphabetically with their known range of distribution, but genera are described and arranged according to their known phylogenetic and intergeneric affinities. Keys are provided and simple drawings illustrating characters where needed are given. Synonyms, notes on species, genera, nomenclatural clarifications are given as foot-notes against relevant species marked with an asterisk, but in the foot-note the same serial number alone is cited and not the full species name. Figures depicting a representative of most genera can be seen; for many genera the more common species are illustrated as plate figures. A total of 272 genera with 852 species falling under 71 families and 16 orders are dealt with in this book. A glossary of 218 technical terms with adequate illustrations and a bibliography of 649 references are given. 241 figures and 18 plates are in the book. An addenda made up to date carries brief information of one new genus, 11 new species and one new subspecies.

Author: Silva, E. I. L.
Publisher: IWMI
ISBN: 9290907789
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Sri Lanka, an island in the Indian Ocean, has lagoons along 1,338 km of its coastline. They experience low-energy oceanic waves and semidiurnal microtidal currents. The Sri Lankan coastal lagoons are not numerous but they are diverse in size, shape, configuration, ecohydrology, and ecosystem values and services. The heterogeneous nature, in general, and specific complexities, to a certain extent, exhibited by coastal lagoons in Sri Lanka are fundamentally determined by coastal and adjoining hinterland geomorphology, tidal fluxes and fluvial inputs, monsoonal-driven climate and weather, morphoedaphic attributes, and cohesive interactions with human interventions.Most coastal lagoons in Sri Lanka are an outcome of mid-Holocene marine transgression and subsequent barrier formation and spit development enclosing the water body between the land and the sea. This process has varied from one coastal stretch to another due to wave-derived littoral drift, sediment transport by tidal fluxes, fluvial inputs and wave action or, in other words, sea-level history, shore-face dynamics and tidal range as the three major factors that control the origin and maintenance of the sandy barrier, the most important features for the formation and evolution of coastal lagoons with their landward water mass. In certain stretches of Sri Lanka’s coastline, formation of the barrier spit was very active due to shore-face dynamics that resulted in chains of shore parallel, elongated lagoons. They are among the most productive in terms of ecosystem yield and show some similarities to large tropical lagoons with respect to sea entrance, zonation, biodiversity and ecosystem services. However, some of them become seasonally hypersaline due to lack of freshwater input and high evaporation. Functions and processes of some of these water bodies are fairly known. There are a fair number of small back-barrier lagoons of different shapes and sizes whose origin goes back to sea-level history. They are located on low-energy coasts with prominent beach ridges and restricted hinterland geomorphology. Mixing processes of these landward indentations are hindered by elevated sand dunes, and their salinity increases due to poor freshwater input and high evaporation leading to seasonally hypersaline conditions. These sedimented lagoons, primarily confined to the southeastern coast of the island, are biologically the least productive, with limited ecosystem values and services. Another group of moderately elongated semicircular, slightly large lagoons in the same coast, formed exclusively by submergence due to mid-Holocene sea-level rises, do not receive sufficient freshwater input leading to seasonally hypersaline conditions. They are also biologically unproductive but some are ecologically important since they provide habitats conducive to migratory birds. In contrast, some lagoons on the southern coast receive sufficient freshwater via streams draining the wet zone, maintain more estuarine salinities, exhibit rich biodiversity and serve as functional resource units. Lagoons formed by mid-Holocene submergence and recession of water level with simultaneous chain barrier formation on the high energy southwest coast, which includes cliffs, small bays and headlands, show peculiar configurations and link channel characteristics. Some of these irregular water bodies have clusters of small isles and luxuriant mangrove swamps with high biodiversity but not very rich in catadromous finfish and shellfish species due to the restricted nature of the entrance channel and nondistinct salinity gradients. The barrier-built, seasonally hypersaline lagoon complex in the Jaffna Peninsula, the largest lagoon system in the country with multiple perennial entrances show extremely narrow salinity ranges towards the upper limit of salinity. The main lagoon is elongated and the shore parallel to eastward and southward extensions is connected by narrow channels. The other lagoon in the Jaffna Peninsula is elongated, shore parallel and ribbon-shaped and receives tidal water throughout the year but freshwater is received only from precipitation and surface runoff. Even though the lagoons in the peninsula are extremely rich in ecosystem heterogeneity their hydrology and hydrodynamics have been severely disturbed by infrastructural development for transportation and by attempts to create a freshwater river for Jaffna. There are a few virgin lagoons of moderate size also on the northern coast, south of the Jaffna Peninsula on both the east and west sides. They look very typical tropical lagoons rich in biodiversity and biological production but their structure, functions and values are virtually unknown in scientific or socioeconomic terms. The lagoons located on the east coast are not numerous but relatively large in extent. They are also an outcome not only of mid-Holocene sea-level rises but of submerged multi-delta valleys or abandoned paleo estuaries. When inundated, the multi-delta valley configuration became elongated and is shore parallel with a smooth seaward shoreline; both shorelines become irregular when coastal waves are weak, and internal waves are created by the action of local winds. Configuration of a lagoon formed by inundation of an abandoned river valley is irregular with a long entrance channel extended landward. These lagoons are highly productive with a variety of associated ecosystems, large open water areas and wide perennial sea entrances. When the lagoon is too much elongated, zonation is prominent due to fewer entrance effects. Lagoons form a particular type of natural capital which generates use values (fish, shrimp, fuelwood, salt, fodder, ecotourism, anchorage, recreation, etc.) and nonuse values (habitat preservation, biodiversity, ecosystem linkages, etc.) contributing positively towards improving the human well-being. Of many values of lagoons in Sri Lanka, only the extractive values are generally utilized at present, by way of fish and shrimp catches, salt production and use of mangrove for various purposes. Besides, coastal lagoons generate a range of nonextractive use values and nonuse values, which could add towards the total economic value. Misuse has taken place at several instances when “use” adversely affects the status of the resources or the health of the ecosystem due to vulnerability and poverty, population pressure, urbanization, development activities and multi-stakeholder issues. The status of lagoon resources shows that the resources in the majority of Sri Lankan lagoons still remain satisfactory, somewhat good or very good. Nevertheless, concerns for management of lagoons in Sri Lanka exist only where “use values” (extractive values, such as fish and shrimp) exist. There is no evidence of resources management in lagoons for inspirational, scholarly values or tacit knowledge of the same. Management for use values exhibits several stages from zero management to comanagement via community management and state intervention. Most of Sri Lanka’s lagoons have the potential for generating high extractive and nonextractive use values which could improve the human well-being, while maintaining resources sustainability. Unfortunately, these potentials have not been understood or “seen” yet by the relevant authorities, although a few instances of exploring this potential were noticed.