Icthyofaunal diversity of District Bhopal (M.P)

Abstract

The icthyofaunal documentationis regarded as one of the major issues of enabling sustainable use of natural resources and play a vital role in analyzing status of fish species (threatened endangered, dominant, abundance etc). The Bhopal district has an area of 2,772 km², and a population 1,836,784 (2001 census). Bhopal District is bounded by the districts of Guna to the north, Vidisha to the northeast, Raisen to the east and southeast, Sehore to the southwest and west, and Rajgarh to the northwest. It consists of two tehsil – Huzur and Bersia and block is Phanda and Bersia.The present study revealed that a total of 45 fish species belonging to 18 families, 7 orders and 32 genera were recorded from the District Bhopal. Order cypriniformes was dominant (19species) followed by Perciformes (10 species), Siluriformes (8 species), Synbranchiformes (2 species), Osteoglossiformes, Beloniformes and Clupeiformes (1 species) each.