Ponniah, A.G. andd Gopalakrisshnan, A. (Eds.). End demic Fish Diversity o of the Weestern Ghatts.

[2000]. 347p. Nattional Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow,, U.P., Indiaa. ISBN: 81-
-901014-2-00

This is the outcom me of a worrkshop thatt was held in Kochi in 1998, whic ch brought out the firrst
consolid o total fresshwater fish fauna, end
dated lists of demic ornam d and sport fishes of the
mental, food
Western Ghats Biodiversity ho otspot. It also included state-wise freshwater fish lists from differe ent
Peninsullar Indian States, distribution, abu
undance, biollogy and cap
ptive breedin es of selected
ng technique
endemic c fish faunaa as well as
a the deta ails of speccies in whicch taxonomiic ambiguityy exists. The
T
checklissts of endem
mic cultivable and ornammental fishes of the We estern Ghatss served as the base lissts
for prio
oritizing spe
ecies from the
t region for captive bbreeding and d conservation under th
he NATP su ub-
project of NBFGR.