Catagorization and Evaluation of Status of some Collected Fish Species of North Bengal, India following IUCN Standard

By : N.R.Chattopadhyay , S. K. Abujam

Page No: 155-172

Abstract
Information gathered on threatened status, ecosystem status, with known or probable reason for decline through collection of samples during a field study covering the major districts of North Bengal. Besides other relevant information was collected keeping the base year as 2000 and with the appraisal that perceivable decline has taken place during the last 15 – 20 years. Out of the 104- fish collected during the study, 58 belongs to the least concern group, 22 represent not assayed group, 13 is near threatened, critically endangered 2, vulnerable 2, data deficient 4 and 3 under endangered category. Of the 22-endangered ones, three are, such as Glyphis gangeticus (Muller and Henle), Pangasius pangasius (Hamilton) and Periopphthalmus weberi Eggert, marked as critically endangered .

Authors :
N.R.Chattopadhyay
Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India

S. K. Abujam
Department of Zoology, Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU), Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh.
 

DOI: http://doi.org/10.32381/JAT.2018.33.3-4.5