Checklist Of Fresh Water Fishes Of The Paler Reservoir In Khammam District, Telangana, India

Johnmohammad, M., Krishna, P. V., Shabbar Khan and Mohd. Azharuddin
Page No: 
050-052

The present study is focused on the fish fauna of Paler reservoir. The results of the present study confirmed the occurrence of 28 species of fishes belonging to 21 genera, 12 families and 7 orders. It was found that the order Cypriniformes was dominant with (13 species) followed by order Perciformes with (7 species), Siluriformes with (3 species), Synbranchifromes with (2 species), Channiformes, Beloniformes and Osteoglossiformes, was identified with one species each. Thus the reservoir had shown more diversity and it also contains good potentiality for fish fauna.

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