Fish Diversity of Pahumara River of Barpeta District, Assam

Author(s)	Rajashri Bhuyan
Country	India
Abstract	A study was undertaken in the Pahumara River of Barpeta District , Assam during the year 2022 to document the fish fauna and its conservation status. The result reveals the presence of 51 species belonging to 7 orders and 17 families from four sampling station. The most dominant order is Cypriniformes from station-1 followed by Perciformes from station-2 . The IUCN status of the fishes were also evaluated as lower risk near threatened, vulnerable, lower risk least concern, endangered , not evaluated and critically endangered. The total number lower risk near threatened was found to be 20 followed by vulnerable which is found to be 13 , not evaluated 13,lower risk least concern 2, and endangered 3 . The study on the Pahumara river calls an urgent need for conservation of the species in the river of the Barpeta District.
Keywords	Conservation, IUCN, Fish Fauna, Vulnerable, Barpeta, Sampling Station.
Field	Biology > Zoology
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 1, January-February 2023
Published On	2023-01-08
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i01.1332

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