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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES IN BIOSCIENCES, AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY © VISHWASHANTI MULTIPURPOSE SOCIETY (Global Peace Multipurpose Society) R. No. MH-659/13(N) www.vmsindia.org DIVERSITY OF FISHES OF RIVER PRAVARA NEAR PRAVARA SANGAM (NEWASA). DISTRICT AHMEDNAGAR (M.S.)

S. D. Tapase Dept. of Zoology, Shri. Dnyaneshwar Mahavidyalaya Newasa - 413603

Abstract River Pravara is one of the tributaries of river Godavari and the source of capture fishery in this region. Fishes were collected during the one year, January 2013 to December 2014, for the study of diversity of fishes river near Pravarasangam (Newasa) District Ahmednagar (M.S.) the total no of 18 species belonging to 12 genera, 5 order's and 9 families of fishes. The result shows rich fish Keyword : Diversity, Fishes, river Pravara

Introduction tones of fishes of these area; the state fishes The fishes are the most important group corporation was operating in 6272 hectors of of vertebrates influencing his life in the various revelators and marketing the catches. ways. Millions of human being is suffer from Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra is hunger and mall nutrition. They form the rich conce rned through the re are minor and major source of food and malnutrition, a meal to tide rese rvoirs, which are contributing significantly ove r the nutritional difficulties of man in to the total fresh water product so it gives addition to serving as an important item of food attention on have systematic investigation on the y provided seve ral products and byproduct. the diversity of fish fauna from these reservoirs The fish provides fish oil used in medicinal and as we ll as from rivers of this district; which is industrial in the life of human being. Several useful to get information on dive rsity of fishe s product and byproducts are also obtained from from this rive r. Such a work at latter stage the different parts and waste part of fishes would provide the required database for further use ful for feeding of manure for fishery prawn culture development and also plantation. Fishes diet provided rich source of beneficial to fishermen for catches the protein, carbohydrate and trace of several economical important fishes from river like vitamin A, D and vitamin B- complex. The good Pravara rivers of district Ahmednagar. Present taste and are easily defective and growth investigation was unde rtaken to study the promoting value.The fishes show edible and status of fishes Dive rsity from river Pravara near economic value. Pravarasangam. ( Newasa) District Ahmednagar. Fishes of the fresh or inland water The river Pravara is one of the tributary of river bodies of the Indian sub-continents have been a Godawari. The pravara sangam is spread subject of study since last century; Hamilton; be tween 19 0 37’ N latitude, 75 0 1’ E longitude. Buchanan (1922); Tiwari Jaryram (1981); Talwar and Jhingran (1991); Ghate and Wagh Material and Method (1991; 1992;1995); Rao et al (1999); Paik e t al The fishes were collected from the (2003) different fishing stations with the he lp of local Re servoirs fishery in India is also fisherman from river pravara. They were important from social economic point of view collected from the market of pravara sangam, assist as the potential providing employment to Newasa, and Newasa phata were they are about millions people. According to Sughnan collected from rive r pravara. The examination of (1995); total area under the rese rvoirs in India is colour pattern and morphology, they were 3.1 million hectors; the re are includes 19000 cleaned with clean and warm water to remove small rese rvoirs with a total wa ter surface area dirt, microorganism and blood strains. The y 14855. 57 hectors and about 180 medium and pe rseve red in 5- 10 % formaldehyde solution. 56 large reservoirs of 527641 and 1140268 Standard identification keys were used for hectors respectively. The Maharashtra is identification of specimen up to species level by endowed with an area 179430 hectors under Hamilton Buchanan (1922), Day ( 1958 1967 reservoirs and the staff produces more than 516 and 1978), Jhingram (1982), Talwar and Jhingran (1991)

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Table- A Checklist of Fishes of Rive r Pravara Phylum Chordata Order Siluriformes Sub-phylum Gnathostomata Family Bagridae Super class Pisces Mystus Class Telestomii Species Seenghala Sub class Species vittatus Order Family Situridae Family Genus Wallago Genus Catala Species attu Species catala Family Claridae Genus Labeo Genus Clarias Species rohita Species batrachus Species bata Order Clupeiformes Genus Cirrihina Family Notopteridae Species mirigala Genus Notopterus Species reba Species chitala Genus Punctius Order Channiformes Species sarana Family Channidae Family balitoridae Genus Channa Genus Nemacheilus Species gachua Species botia Species punctatus Order Perciformes Species muraliuss Family Gobidae Species straiatus Genus Glassogobius Species giuris Family centropomidae Genus ambassis Species nema

Result and Discussion: tributaries of rive r Tawi. Nath (1980) prepared a The present work confirms the checklist of fishes of Jammu and Kashmir state occurrence of 19 species belongs to five orders and inlisted 28 fish species inhibiting river Tawi. and twelve genera and nine families of fishes . Fish found of river Tawi is more dive rsified as The orde r cypriniformes was dominant with compare to the 49 species be long to five order, seven fish species to be followed the orde r fifteen familie s and forty-one gene ra inhibiting silluriforme s four and channiformes with four river. Dutta et al (2003) in a survey of river Tawi species, orde r perciformes with species two and and its varie s tributaries have reported the clupeiformes with one species. The work is occurance of ninety six fish species be long to supported by number of earlier studied on seven orders, twenty families and fifty two similar lines. Das and Nath (1966a, b) were genera. Pawar e t al (2003) studied fish diversity there first to describe 23 species of fishe s in the sirur dam and confermed the occurrence be longing to seven families and 14 genera of eleven fish species belong to five orders. inhibiting the river Tawi and tributaries. Das Kamble et.al. (2006) recorded 27 species and Nath (1971) revised the fish fauna of belonging 18 gene ra, 7 orde r and 11 families Jammu and enlisted the prese nce of 27 fish from Manjara River, near Kallam district species be long to eight families and fifteen Osmanabad. Pawar e t.al (2007) wer recorded 26 ge nera in river Tawi and its tributaries. Tilak fish species from Pethwadas dam Taluka (1971) surve yed river Tawi and its tributarie s Kandhar in Nanded District, Maharashtra, and reported the presence of 35 fish species in India. Rathod e t.al. (2008) we re investigated 12 Inhabitancy River and Tawi and its Gadigarh fish species from 12 different gene ra be longing tributary. Malhotra e t al (1975) prepared and to 3 orders of families from class teleost from inde fication key of 45 fish species including 37 Umra (Shamsudin) reservoir, Washim District fish species inhibiting river Tawi and its Maharashtra. Anish Dua and Chander Prakash tributarie s Gadigrah. Dutta (1978) have (2009) were recorded 61 species of fishes from reported fish species belonging to 32 genera Harike wetland and the se belonging to 17 inhibiting a sprig fed Gadigarh stream. A familie s, and 35 gene ra.

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