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E:\Jega\Index\M.65\2003\APRIL0~1 REVIEW ZOOS' PRINT JOURNAL 18(4): 1067-1070 AN UPDATED CHECKLIST OF ICHTHYOFAUNA OF EASTERN GHATS K. Rema Devi and T.J. Indra Zoological Survey of India, Southern Regional Station, 130, Santhome High Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600028, India Abstract A total of 127 species under nine orders and 26 families are Updated information on ichthyofaunal species given. Classification follows Nelson (1994), Jayaram (1999) and composition of the Eastern Ghats is provided. They Menon (1999). While listing the species of Eastern Ghats, both belong to 127 species (including 2 subspecies) under Menon (1999) and Jayaram (1999) have been followed and based 26 families and nine orders. Absence of typical Malayan on our own judgement we have adopted the better of the two. elements and few endemics characterise the fauna of the Eastern Ghats in contrast to the presence of several Discussion Malayan elements and more than 50% endemics among Menon (1951) listed 119 fish species from Eastern Ghats based the Western Ghats Ichthyofauna. on his extensive collections and earlier reports. His study rendered substantial support to Hora’s Satpura Hypothesis. Keywords From a study of the distribution of the ichthyofauna of this Ichthyofauna, Eastern Ghats, Western Ghats range he opined that the discontinuous line of hills of the Eastern Ghats is further divisible into two major divisions, the part lying above the Godavari river which he called the Orissa hills and Introduction the other lying below the Krishna for which he felt the term The Eastern Ghats, unlike the Western Ghats, are not a Eastern Ghats could be more appropriately used. He found the continuous range of mountains but a series of broken and fish fauna of the Mahanadi basin to be chiefly Gangetic and weathered relicts of the Peninsular Plateau represented as a this condition did not appear in the drainage below it except to series of isolated hills. The Eastern Ghats form the eastern a very small extent in the Godavari. He found a total absence of border of the Peninsular Plateau, extending from the extreme Malayan elements in the fish fauna of the Eastern Ghats and northeast to the south of the Chota-Nagpur Plateau and ending also the absence of any endemicity. in the extreme southwest end of the Peninsula. In the south, the Eastern Ghats merge with the Western Ghats and the eastern From Western Ghats, 208 primary freshwater fishes are known parts of the Niligiri, Anamalai and Palani Hills also form parts of (Menon, 1999) of which more than 50% (112 species) are the Eastern Ghats (Mani, 1974). The ichthyofauna of Eastern endemics whereas in Eastern Ghats, of the 127 species listed Ghats have not been thoroughly studied as those of the Western here, only one is endemic viz. Lepidocephalus coromandalensis Ghats. The only comprehensive account of the Eastern Ghats Menon. Another endemic species of Palani Hills viz., is that of Menon (1951) based on his extensive surveys and Horalabiosa palaniensis Rema Devi and Menon is not included study of the fauna of Orissa hills and the rest of the Eastern in the present list since the exact collection site in the Palani Ghats, in which was also included all earlier reports beginning Hills is not known. According to Menon 1951, “ The spread of with Day (1878) from Orissa hills and Eastern Ghats; Misra the fish fauna to the Orissa hills and the Eastern Ghats from (1938) from Eastern Ghats below the Krishna River; Hora (1938) the Satpuras and Western Ghats, especially the northern from Bailadila range, Bastar State, Central Province; Hora (1940) portion of it, seems to have been brought about by the earth from the headwaters of Mahanadi; Chauhan (1947) from Orissa; movements that affected Peninsular India and subsequently and the material collected by Chauhan in 1951 from Simlipal reversed the north westerly drainage of the Godavari and the Hills, Mayurbhanj (Orissa). A total of 119 species have been Mahanadi. .... The absence of any endemicity in the fish fauna listed by Menon (1951). The present list includes subsequent of the Eastern Ghats strongly supports the view that the tilting reports by Venkateswaralu and Bakde (1986), Lazarus et al. of the Peninsula and the consequent reversal of drainage had (1988), Devi (1992), Devi and Menon (1995) and Devi and occurred only during comparatively recent times in the Raghunathan (1999). geological history and sufficient time had not yet elapsed since the colonisation of fishes in the hills of the Eastern Ghats for Received 18 July 2002; Revised received 18 January 2003; Finally accepted 24 January 2003 April 2003 Zoos' Print Journal 18(4): 1067-1070 1067 An updated checklist of Ichthyofauna of Eastern Ghats K.Rema Devi & T.J.Indra List of fishes of Eastern Ghats Division: Teleostei Subfamily: Cyprininae Family: Balitoridae Subdivision: Osteoglossomorpha Tribe: Cyprinini Subfamily: Noemacheilinae Order: Osteoglossiformes Subtribe: Tores Acanthocobitis botia (Hamilton) Family: Notopteridae Tor khudree (Sykes) Acanthocobitis moreh (Sykes) (= N. botia aureus) Notopterus notopterus (Pallas) Schistura denisoni denisoni (Day) Chitala chitala (Hamilton) Tribe: Systomini Oreonectes (Indoreonectes) evezardi (Day) Subtribe: Osteobramae Schistura denisoni dayi Hora Subdivision: Elopomorpha Osteobrama cotio (Hamilton) Order: Anguilliformes Osteobrama cotio cunma Day Family: Cobitidae Family: Anguillidae Osteobrama neilli (Day) (= Rohtee duvancelli (Val.)) Subfamily: Cobitinae Anguilla bengalensis (Hamilton) Osteobrama vigorsii (Sykes) Lepidocephalus guntea (Hamilton) Lepidocephalus thermalis (Val.) Subtribe: Poropintii Subdivision: Clupeomorpha Lepidocephalus coromandalensis Menon (Endemic) * Chagunius chagunio (Hamilton) Order: Clupeiformes Order: Siluriformes Family: Clupeidae Subtribe: Systomi Family: Bagridae Subfamily: Alosinae Oreichthys cosuatis (Hamilton) Subfamily: Ritinae Gudusia chapra (Hamilton) Puntius amphibius (Val.) Rita chrysea (Day) Puntius ambassis (Day) Subfamily: Dorosomatinae Puntius bimaculatus (Bleeker) * Subfamily: Bagrinae Goniolosa manmina (Hamilton) Puntius chola (Hamilton) Mystus armatus (Day) * Subdivision: Euteleostei Puntius conchonius (Hamilton) Mystus cavasius (Hamilton) Suborder: Ostariophysi Puntius dorsalis (Jerdon) Mystus gulio (Hamilton) Order: Cypriniformes Puntius filamentosus (Val.) Mystus menoda (Hamilton) Family: Cyprinidae Puntius gelius (Hamilton) Mystus montanus (Jerdon) * Subfamily: Danioninae Puntius guganio (Hamilton) Mystus tengara (Bloch) Tribe: Oxygasterini Puntius melanampyx Day 3 Mystus vittatus (Bloch) Securicula gora (Hamilton) Puntius phutunio (Hamilton) Aorichthys aor (Hamilton) Salmostoma bacaila (Hamilton) Puntius sarana sarana (Hamilton) Aorichthys seenghala (Sykes) * Salmostoma boopis Day Puntius sarana subnasutus (Val.) Salmostoma clupeoides (Bloch) Puntius sophore (Hamilton) Family: Siluridae Salmostoma phulo orissaensis Banarescu Puntius terio (Hamilton) Ompok bimaculatus (Bloch) Salmostoma untrachi (Day) Puntius ticto (Hamilton) Ompok pabda (Hamilton) Aspidoparia morar (Hamilton) Puntius vittatus Day* Wallago attu (Bloch & Schn.) Barilius barna (Hamilton) Barilius barila (Hamilton) Tribe: Labeonini Family: Schilbeidae Barilius bendelisis (Hamilton) Subtribe: Labeones Subfamily: Ailinae Barilius bola (Hamilton) Cirrhinus fulungee (Sykes) Ailia coila (Hamilton) Cirrhinus mrigala (Hamilton) * Tribe: Danionini Cirrhinus reba (Hamilton) Subfamily: Schilbeinae Brachydanio rerio (Hamilton) 2 Catla catla (Hamilton) Pseudeutropius atherinoides (Bloch) Chela cachius (Hamilton) Labeo angra (Hamilton) Neotropius khavalchor Kulkarni * Chela laubuca (Hamilton) Labeo ariza (Hamilton) Clupisoma garua (Hamilton) Esomus barbatus (Jerdon) 1 Labeo bata (Hamilton) Eutropiichthys murius (Hamilton) Esomus danricus (Hamilton) Labeo boggut (Sykes) Eutropiichthys vacha (Hamilton) Esomus thermoicos (Hamilton) * 1 Labeo calbasu (Hamilton) Danio malabaricus (Jerdon) Labeo fimbriatus (Bloch) Family: Pangasiidae Danio aequipinnatus (McCl.) Labeo gonius (Hamilton) Pangasius pangasius Hamilton Danio devario (Hamilton) Labeo rohita (Hamilton) Rasbora caverii (Jerdon) * Family: Amblycipitidae Rasbora daniconius (Hamilton) Subfamily: Garrinae Amblyceps mangois (Hamilton) Rasbora rasbora (Hamilton) Garra mullya (Sykes) Amblypharyngodon microlepis (Bleeker) Crossocheilus latius latius (Hamilton) Family: Sisoridae Amblypharyngodon mola (Hamilton) Bagarius bagrius (Hamilton) Family: Parapsilorhynchidae Gagata cenia (Hamilton) Parapsilorhynchus tentaculatus (Annandale) Nangra itchkea (Sykes) * Hara hara (Hamilton) Glyptothorax lonah (Sykes) (= G. dekkanensis Gunther) 1068 April 2003 Zoos' Print Journal 18(4): 1067-1070 An updated checklist of Ichthyofauna of Eastern Ghats K.Rema Devi & T.J.Indra Family: Clariidae Order: Synbranchiformes Suborder: Labroidei Clarias batrachus (Linnaeus) Suborder: Synbranchoidei Family: Cichlidae Family: Synbranchidae Etroplus maculatus (Bloch) Family: Heteropneustidae Monopterus cuchia (Hamilton) Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch) Suborder: Gobioidei Suborder: Mastacembeloidei Family: Gobiidae Super Order: Acanthopterygii Family: Mastacembelidae Subfamily: Gobiinae Series: Mugilomorpha Subfamily: Mastacembelinae Glossogobius giuris (Hamilton) Order: Mugiliformes Macrognathus aral (Bloch & Schneider) Family: Mugilidae Macrognathus pancalus Hamilton Subfamily: Sicydinae Rhinomugil corsula (Hamilton) Mastacembelus armatus (Lacepede) Sicyopterus griseus (Day) Series: Atherinomorpha Order: Perciformes Suborder: Anabantoidei Order: Beloniformes Suborder: Percoidei Family:
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