MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION OCCASIONAL PAPER NO. 98 I I I I RECORDS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION OCCASIONAL PAPER No. 98 ON A COLLECfION OF FISH FROM BASTAR DISTRIcr~ MADHYA PRADESH A. K. KARMAKAR AND A. K. DATTA Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta ~~i:{1f ~~~ Edited by the Directol\ Zoolog/cal Survey of Indal 1988 © Copyright, Government of ImJ'ia 1988 Published February, 1988 PRICE: Inland Rs. 28.00 Foreign: £ 3.00 $ 4.50 Printed at The Pooran Press, 21, Balaram Ghose Street, Calcutta 700 004 and Produced by the Publication Division & Published by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, C..alcutta. RECORDS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION Occasional Paper No. 98 1988 Pages : 1-50 CONTENTS Pages INTRODUCTION 1 ABBREVIATION USED 1 LIST OF FISHES FROM BASTAR 2 SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNT 9 DISCUSSION ON ZOO-GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 46 SUMMARY 48 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 48 REFERENCES 48 INTRODUCTION The natural history of the fishes occurring in Bastar district in Madhya Pradesh, Indlia are being presented Gn this paper. Systematic account on fishfs of Bastar is not much known! 'except the referenqe 01 Hora (1938). During tlre period 1978-1980 field! sur.veys in Bastar district were conducted and representative exampllis of fi'sh from th'e. localities detailed! in the list of collrecting stations were collected. The, present paper deals on the aforesaid material whiCh comprises ] 00 species belonging to 45 genera and 19. familiies. Of these, two ~peciesJ viz., Ciupis01110 bastari and Panthls saberi have belen established (Datta and! Ka.rnlakar, 1980, 1981). Dubey and Mehra (1.959) worked on the fish and fisheries of Chambal river and listed! 71 species of fishes. Hora (1938) reported 13 species of fishes from Bailadila rang~J Bastar d~S:trict. Hora (1940) described 43 species of fislhes from the headwaters of th'c, Mahanadi river, Raipur district, Central Provinces. Hora and Nair (1941) report~d 40 species of fishes fronl the Satpum range, Hoshang.a bad distrj;ct~ Ce.ntral Provinces. Soltli (1959, 60) found 35 sp'ecies of fisihes in Bhopftl lower lake and 43 spec~es of fishes in Bhopal upper lake respectively. Menon (1951) discuss~dI onl the role of East~rn Ghats in the distribution, of Malayan fauna and flora to penin­ sular India. The present fish collectjons were made in the head waters of Godavari and Mahanadi River Systems, namely, Indravati river, Saberi rJver, Mahanadi, Dudlhnadi ~nd Kukri (Boor) river. Collections were also made mOlll lakes, tanks and! othe,r watennasses. TIre general topography of the area is nlainly mount'ainous intersected with rivers and rivulets. The valleys are undulating with dry, m~xed, deci­ duous fo[est'es consisting mainly of Sal. Teak, Mahua, Tamalrind', Tendu t Jamun, Mango, Peepal, Palm, Balnboo, Babbul and valri'ous kinds of creepers. The undcrcanopp consists of grasses (ghonar, kusad). The fernlite mounds are very COlnmon in the forest. ABBREVIATION USED A. K. K.-A. K. Karmakar M. H. & Party-Me Hafeezullah & Party T. K. C. & A. K. K.-T. K. Chatterjee & .~. K. Karnmkar D. P. S. & Party-D. P. Sanyal & Party 2 REC. ZOOL. SURV. INDIA, OCC. PAPER No. 98 LIST OF COLLECTING STATIONS 1. Mahanadi river at Charama. 2. Mahanadi river at Lakbanpur.. 12 kms. south of Charama. 3. Dudhnadi river and tanks at Kankel. 4. K'eskal, 30 lans. south of Kanlrer. 5. Korar, 29 kIllS. north-west of Kanker. 6. l'anks at Kondagaon. 7. Kukri (Bhor) r.iver at Borgaon, 25 kms. north of Kondagaon. 8. Pharasgaon, 30 lans. north of Kondagaon. 9. Narainpur, 51 klns. west of Kondagaon. 10. Tanks at Bastar village, 18 kms. north of Jagdalpur. 11. Indravati rive,f, Dalpatsagar and tanks at Jagdalpur. 12. Confluence of Indravati and! Narangi river and tanks at Lohandliguda. 13. Indravati rive.r at Chi,trakot, 7 kms. west of Lohandiguda. 14. Tanks at Barsur. 15. Indravati river at Budhg;hat, 8 kms. north-~~st of Barsur. 16. G·e.edam, 22 kms. south of Barsur. 17. Bailadila,- 53 kIns. south-west of Geedanl. 18. Chintapally, 46 kms. north-west of Bijapur. 19. Tanks at Bhopalpatnam. 20. Indravati river, 8 kms. west of Bhopalpatnam. 21 Sa be,ri river at Sulana. 22. Tank at Pujaripal village" 23- kms. north-east of Sukma. 23 Sabui river at Konta. 24. Sa be,ri river at Dondra, 3 kms. north of Konta. * LIST OF FISHES FROM BASTER Class OSTEICHTHYES Subclass ACTINOPTERYGII '" (The general classification of fishes adopted in the list is that of Greenwood el al 1966). KARMAKAR & ])ATTA Collection of (ish Iro111 Bastar District 3 DIVISION II Suprerorder OSTEOGLOSSOMORPHA Order OSTEOGLOSSIFORMES Suborder NOTOPTEROIDEI Family NOTOPTERIDAE 1. Notoplerus notopterus (Pallas) DIVIS[ON III Supre.rorder OSTARIOPHYSI Ord~r CYPRINIFORMES Suborde,r CYPRINOIDEI Falnily CYPRINIDAE Subfamily ABRAMIDINAE 2. Oxygaster bacaila (Hamilton) 3. O. clupeoides (Bloch) 4. Salmost0111a plzulo philio (HamHton) Subfamily RASBORINAE 5. BarililiS harila (Hamilton) 6. B. burna (Hamilton) 7. B. hendelisis (Hanlilton) 8. B. evezardi (Day) 9. B. gatensis (Valenciennes) 10. Barilills vagra (Hamilton) 11. Danio (Danio) aequipinnatus (McClelland) 12. D. (D.) devario (Hamilt'on) 13. D. (D.) neilg/terriensis (Day) 14. ESOl1lllS danrica (Hamilton) 4 REC. ZOOL. SURV. INDIA, Occ. PAPER No., 98 15. Rasbora daniconius (Hamilton) Subfamily CYPRININAB 16. Anlblypharyngodon nlicrolepis (Bleeker) 17. A. mola (Hamilton) 18. Aspidoparia morar (Hamilton) 19. ('atla calla (Hamilton) 20. Cirrhinlls fulungee (Sykes) 21. C. nzarigala (Hamilton) 22. C'. reba (Hamilton) 23. Crossocheilus latius latius (Halnilton) 24. GarTa gotyla gotyla (Gray) 25. G. nluliya (Sykes) 26. Labeo angra (Hamilton) 27. L. boga (Hamilton) 28. L. boggut (Sylres) 29. L. calbasu (Hamilton) 30. L. dyocheilus (McOellandl) 31. L. fimbriatus (Bloch) 32. L. gonius (Hamilton) 33-· L. pangusia (Hamilton) 34. L. porcellus (Heckel) 35. L. rohita (Hamilton) 36. Osteobranta cotio peninsuiaT;s (Silas) 37. Osteobrama vigors;; (Sykes) 3R. Parapsilorhynchus tentacu[aJus (Annandale) 39. Puntius amphibius (Valenciennes) 40. P. arenatus (Day) KARMAKAR & DATTA : Collection of fish from Bastar District 5 41. P. arulius aruUus (J'e"sdon) 42. P. chola (Hamilton) 43. P. conchonius (Hamilt'onJ) 44. P. curmuca (Hamilton) 45. P. dorsalis (J'erdon) 46. P. gelius (Hamilton) 47. P. kolus (Sykes) 48. P. melanostigma (Day) 49. P. phutunio (Hamilton) 50. P. pinnauratus (Day) 51. P. saberi Datta & Karmakalf 52. P. sarana sarana (Hamilt'on) 53. P. sophore (fl-<lmilton) 54. P.. ti'cto (Hamilton) 55. P. vittatus Day 56. Tor khudree (Sylres) 57. T tor (Hamilton) Fa.mily CoBITIDAE 58. Lepidocephalus (Lepidocephalichthys) guntea (Hamilton) 59. L. (L.) thermalis (Cuvier & Valenciennes) 60. Noemacheilus botia (Hamiton' 61. N. dayi Hora 62. N .. evezardi Day 63. N. denfsonii Day Ord~l SILURIFORMES Family BAGRIDAE 64. Mystus bleekeri (Day) 65. Mystus cavasius (Hamilton) 6 REC. ZOOL. SURV. INDIA, OCC. PAPER No. 98 66. M. 1110ntanus (l'erdon) 67. M. vittatus (Bloch) 68. Aorichthys aor (Hamilton) 69. A. seenghala (Sykes) 70. Rita kuturnee (Sykes) 71. R. rita ( Hamilton) Family SILURIDAE 72. 011lpok bimaclilatus (Bloch) 73. WallaRo attu (Schneider) Family SCHILBEIDAE 74. Cilipisom bastari Datta & Karmakar 75. C'. garua (Hamilt'on) 76. C. 1110ntana Hora 77. C. prater; Rora 78. Pseutieutropills atheri'noides (Bloch) 79. Silonia childreni (Sykes) Family SISORIDAB 80. Bagarius bagarills (Hamilton) 81. Glyptofhorax dekkanensis (Gunther) Family CLARIIDAE 82. Clarias batrachus (Linnaeus) Family HETEROPNEUSTIDAE 83. Heleropnellstes tassilis (Bloch) Subord~.r EXOCOETOIDEI Family BELONIDAB 84. XeJlentodoll cancila (Hamilton) Sup:erorder ACANTIIOPTER'"GIl Order CHANNI FORM ES Family CHANNIDAE 85. Channa gachlla (Hamilfon) KARMAKAR & DATTA : Collection of fish from Bastar Dks!rict 7 86. C. 111arulius (HamiltOn) 87. C. punctata (Bloch) Order SYNBRANCHIFORMES Suborder SYNBRANCHOIDEI Family SYNBRANCHIDAE 88. Monopterus cuchia (Hamilton) Orcretf PERCIFORMES Suborder PERCOIDEI Family CENTROPOMIDAE 89. Chanda nama (Hamilton) 90. C. Tanga (Hamilton) Family NANDIDAE 91. Badis badis (Hamilton) 92. Nandus nandus (Hamilton) Family CICHLIDAE 93. Tilapia mossambica (Peters) Subor<k.r MUGILOIDEI Family MUGILIDAE 94. Rhinonlugil corsula (Hamilton) Suborder GOBIOIDEI Family GOBIIDAE 95~ Awaous stamineu$ (Valenciennes) 96. Glossogobills giuris (Hamilton) Suborder ANABANTOIDEI Family ANABANTIDAE 97. Anabas (e.studineus (Bloch) Orded MASTACEMBELIFORMES Family MASTACEMBELIDAF. 98 lYl astacelnbelus arlnatus (LeC'ep',:de) 99. M. pancaius (Hamilton) 100. iYacrognathus aculeatum (Bloch) TABLE-l Data Oil 1lumber of species il1. each family from following sources Family Total Indravati Saberi Mahanadi Dudhnadi Lake Tank River River River River 00 Q'\ ~ N otopteridae 1 1 1 Cyprinidae 57 - 26 ~ 23 30 21 15 7 ~ ~ Cobitidae 5 5 1 2 1 ~ Bagridae 8 4 3 3 3 3 U Siluridae 2 2 2 2 2 ~ Schilbeidae 6 3 4 1 2 1 .. Sisoridae 2 2 1 5 Clariidae 1 1 z Heteropneustidae 1 I-t 1 1 Belonidae 1 1 ~ Channidae 3 2 2 ::> 3 ~ Synbranchidae 1 1 ~ Centropomidae 2 1 2 1 1 1 8 Nandidae 2 1 2 1 N Cichlidae 1 1 U ~ Mugilidae 1 1 ~ Gobiidae 2 1 2 1 1 1 Anabantidae 1 1 Mastacembelidae 3 1 1 1 1 2 TOTAL - 100 45 43 34 26, 16 44 The fish fauna of Represe1ltative Rivers, Lakes and Tanks of Bastar.. c¢ KAR1\1AKAR & DATfA Collection of fish from BastaT District 9 TABLE-2 Fish Fatnilies Represented ill Tropical Freshwate,. Name of families South America Mrica Asia Notopteridae (-) (+) (+) Cyprinidae (-) (+) (+) Bagridae (-) (+) (+) Siluridae (-) (-) (+) Scb.ilbeidae (-) (+) (+) Sisaridae (-)