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Length–weight relationships of four small indigenous freshwater fishes from the subtropical Ganga River, India
Author(s) -
Alam Absar,
Jha Dharm Nath,
Verma Sushil Kumar,
Verma Hari Om,
Mishra Sandeep Kumar,
Das Shyamal Chandra Sukla,
Kumar Jeetendra,
Thakur Venkatesh RamaRao,
Gupta Monika,
Das Basanta Kumar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
lakes and reservoirs: research and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.296
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1440-1770
pISSN - 1320-5331
DOI - 10.1111/lre.12337
Subject(s) - subtropics , fishery , fish <actinopterygii> , freshwater fish , indigenous , geography , biology , ecology
Basic information on length–weight relationships for a number of small indigenous tropical freshwater fish species is still sparse or not available on the FishBase. The p resent study reports the weight–length relationships of four species from the Ganga River in India. A total of 795 fresh fish specimens of Pethia gelius , Corica soborna , Parambassis baculis and Aborichthys elongatus were collected from four different locations along stretches of the Ganga River from June 2017 to August 2018. The r 2 and b values for the four fish species ranged from 0.949 to 0.998 and 2.55 to 2.849, respectively. Length–weight relationships for P. gelius , P. baculis and A. elongatus represent the first information from the Ganga River. A new record for the maximum size of C. soborna was documented as 8.54 cm TL and 4.25 g.