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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.
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.
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Laubuka lankensis, also known as the Sri Lanka blue laubuca, is a is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to family Danionidae. This species is endemic to Sri Lanka. [1] [2] It is a freshwater species widely distributed throughout the lowland dry zone of the island. [1] It grows to 5.8 cm (2.3 in) standard length. [2]
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.
He resigned from government office in 1987 to commence work on a project to explore the island's freshwater fishes, [7] which led to his first book in 1990, Freshwater fishes of Sri Lanka, [1] an illustrated account of the country's freshwater-fish fauna.
The Ceylon killifish (Sinhala: උඩ හඳයා, romanized: uda handaya; Aplocheilus dayi) is a species of killifish endemic to Sri Lanka. This species grows to a length of 9 cm (3.5 in). [1] Males and females have a black dot at the rear end of the base of the dorsal fin. The females lay 50–150 eggs. [2]