Study of Fish fauna from the Salaimendha Dam Dist. Nagpur (MS), India: For the purpose of Ecological efficiency
Akshay A. Pangul1 , Shiv Nath Yadav2 , and PP Ingale3
1,2Department of Zoology, Radha Govind University, Ramgadh - 829122 (India) 3Department of Zoology, Saibaba Arts and Science College Parseoni, Nagpur - 441105 Email: pratya87@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2320-5215
ABSTRACT
In the preliminary observation the water bodies situated in Located in Salaimendha is a small village in Hingana Taluka in Nagpur district of Maharashtra State, India. It is located 20 km towards west from district headquarters Nagpur. As per ecology point of view a lot of work has been incomplete on hydrobiology as well as the biotic fauna present in the aquatic habitats of the Nagpur district. Thus, the recent investigation on fish fauna of Salaimendha dam is proposed. The existing outcome revealed that the dam is the habitat of 13 fish species from 6 families. Cyprinidae was the most dominant family. The family Cyprinidae represents seven (7) species followed by Siluridae (2), Channidae (1), Gobiidae (1), Anabantidae (1) and Clariidae (1).