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Deep-sea carnivorous fish. Caught with line. Good sporting fish. Piscivorous 50–80 cm. Prized commercial fish. Deep-water longtail red snapper (Sacré chien grande queue) Elongated caudal fin whose upper lobe is longer. Red on the dorsal side, whitish below. Found on rocky bottoms. Carnivorous (small fish and crustaceans) 70 cm. Good ...
The low salinity and high osmotic pressure makes them so different. Few fish can be found in all three ecological systems. There are 95 species of freshwater fish occur in the country, where 53 of those are endemic. 41% of all known species of fish of Sri Lanka are found in freshwater. There are about 70% of endemism of those fish.
Garra ceylonensis (the stone sucker [2] or Ceylon logsucker [citation needed]) is a species of ray-finned fish in the cyprinid family. It is endemic to rivers and streams in Sri Lanka (formerly known as "Ceylon") - and is considered as a schooling fish.
Sri Lanka contains 93 species of freshwater fish, of which 50 are endemic. 28 species are categorized as threatened by the IUCN. [5] There are 8 species of brackish water fish that also come to freshwater, and 24 introduced exotic fish species.
Sri Lankan freshwater habitats can be divided into 6 major types - river, stream, lake, pond, villu and paddy field - according to size, depth, rate of flow and type of bottom. Medium-sized rivers are called Oya and fast flowing streams torrential streams are called Dola in Sinhalese. The following list provide the freshwater fauna of Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka is a tropical island situated close to the southern tip of India. It is situated in the middle of Indian Ocean. Because of being an island, Sri Lanka has many endemic freshwater fauna, as well as thousands of marine and brackish water fauna. [1] Fishing is the way of life of most of coastal community.
Tor khudree, the Deccan mahseer, Khudree mahseer, or black mahseer, is a freshwater fish of the carp family found in major rivers and reservoirs of India and Sri Lanka. [1] Found throughout India , following large-scale introductions of artificially-bred fish across the country [ 2 ] (annex 2), but found of the largest size and in the greatest ...
These fish are proving to be a nuisance and are disturbing the ecosystem of Mauritian rivers. [12] All the above fish have been introduced. Indigenous fish are few, and one of them is the goby, locally known as bichiques, of which two species are found, Awaous commersoni and Awaous pallidus, which locally are known as bichiques. They are ...