Zoology Library

Edible Freshwater Exotic Fishes: The exotic fishes are those fishes they are not found in native water resources. In India several types of exotic fishes was introduced for various purposes like large aquaculture production, quality of fishes etc. there are several exotic fishes was introduced in India, Before independence during the period 1870-1947, under the British policy, 9…

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Freshwater Catfishes: Catfishes belong to order Siluriformes. It  is one of the second largest orders of teleosts containing more than 4100 species which represent 12% of all teleosts fish and 6.3% of all vertebrate animals (Eschmeyer and Fong, 2014; Wilson and Reeder, 2005). Catfish are highly diverse and distributed worldwide. They are commonly found in inland…

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Air Breathing Freshwater Fishes : Air breathing freshwater fishes are highly used as esteemed food in India. On the roof of the pharynx, Air breathing fishes have a pair of cavities which have folded linings, richly supplied with blood vessels for taking in air hence it known as air breathing fishes. with the help of…

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