Record of zipper loach Paracanthocobitis botia (Hamilton 1822), an ornamental fish from Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India

Godhuli Sit; Arun Jana; Angsuman  Chanda; Sanjat Kumar Sahu

doi:10.17017/j.fish.355

Godhuli Sit Natural & Applied Sciences Research centre, Raja N. L. Khan Women’s College (Autonomous), Vidyasagar University, Midnapur-721102, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India
Arun Jana Natural & Applied Sciences Research centre, Raja N. L. Khan Women’s College (Autonomous), Vidyasagar University, Midnapur-721102, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India
Angsuman Chanda Natural & Applied Sciences Research centre, Raja N. L. Khan Women’s College (Autonomous), Vidyasagar University, Midnapur-721102, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India; Department of Environmental Science, Sambalpur University, Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Sambalpur, Odisha- 768019, India
Sanjat Kumar Sahu Department of Environmental Science, Sambalpur University, Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Sambalpur, Odisha- 768019, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17017/j.fish.355

Keywords: loach, Nemachilidae, new record, ornamental fish, Paracanthocobitis botia, Paschim Medinipur

Abstract

Paracanthocobitis botia (Hamilton 1822) is an indigenous ornamental fish belongs to family Nemachilidae, mainly reported from north-eastern part of West Bengal. During the present survey of indigenous ornamental fish diversity in Paschim Medinipur district, P. botia has been recorded from Kangsabati River Basin (22°23¢55.0²N 87°20¢33.9²E and 22°24¢31.3²N 87°17¢54.3²E) of Midnapore, as well as Paschim Medinipur district, West Bengal. The specimens have been identified on the basis of morphometric and meristic analyses. Present study reports the extension of distribution of the species up to South-Western part of Bengal.

References

Arunkumar L, Moyon WA (2019) Paracanthocobitis tumitensis a new species of zipper loach from Manipur, north-eastern India (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae). Species 20: 101–109.

Baensch HA, Riehl R (1985) Aquarien atlas. Band 2. Mergus, Verlag für Natur-und Heimtierkunde GmbH, Melle, Germany. 1216 pp.

Das D (2015) Ichthyofaunal diversity of river Torsa and its tributaries at terai region of West Bengal, India. International Journal of Science and Nature 6(2): 256–63.

Das D, Sen A, Mitra P (2013) Major fauna of Rasik Beel wetland complex (WB). Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 343: 1–76.

Grant S (2007) A new subgenus of Acanthocobitis Peters, 1861 (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyofile 2(3): 1–9.

Hamilton F (1822) An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh & London. pp. 1–405.

Jana A, Sit G, Chanda A (2020) Record of Botia lohachata Chaudhuri, 1912 as indigenous ornamental fish in Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India. ZSI E-publication. p. 106.

Jana A, Sit G, Chanda A (2021) Ichthyofaunal diversity of river Kapaleswari at Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, India. Flora and Fauna 27(1): 113–124.

Jana A, Sit G, Maiti K (2015) Ichthyofaunal diversity of Keleghai River at Medinipur district in West Bengal. International Research Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences 1: 24–26.

Kar A, Bhattacharya M, Ghorai M, Patra S, Patra BC (2017) Ichthyofaunal diversity of Kangsabati River at Paschim Medinipur District, West Bengal, India. Proceedings of the Zoological Society 70(2): 165–173.

Kisku S, Chini DS, Bhattacharya M, Kar A, Parua S, ... Patra BC (2017) A cross-sectional study on water quality in relation to fish diversity of Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India through geoinformatics approaches. The Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research 43(4): 283–289.

Kottelat M (1990) New species and populations of cave Nemacheilines in South and South-East Asia. Mémoires de Biospéologie 17: 49–55.

Kottelat M (2012) Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement No. 26: 1–199.

Pahari RP, Chakrabortty D, Sarkar KS, Bhattacharya T (2017) Ichthyofaunal diversity in Keleghai River, West Bengal, India. International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and Bioscience 6(6): 29–38.

Paul B, Chanda A (2014) Indigenous ornamental fish faunal diversity in Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India. International Research Journal of Biological Sciences 3(6): 94–100.

Paul B, Chanda A (2017) A checklist of small indigenous freshwater fish fauna of undivided Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India. International Journal of Current Trends in Science and Technology 7(11): 20393–20400.

Pethiyagoda R (1991) Freshwater fishes of Sri Lanka. The Wildlife Heritage Trust of Sri Lanka, Colombo.

Shangningam B, Rath S, Chowdhury BR, Laishram K (2019) First report of Paracanthocobitis botia (Hamilton 1822) from Bihar with a note on variation. International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies 7(5): 533–535.

Singer RA, Page LM (2015) Revision of the zipper loaches, Acanthocobitis and Paracanthocobitis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae), with descriptions of five new species. Copeia 103(2): 378–401.

Talwar PK, Jhingran AG (1991) Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries, volume 1 and 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. pp. 1–1158.