Freshwater fishes of Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats of Karnataka, India

摘要

The ichthyofauna of Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary is comprised of 58 species belonging to 18 families and 44 genera of which close to 25% are endemic to the Western Ghats region, and eight are endemic to the Cauvery River system namely, Dawkinsia arulius , Dawkinsia rubrotinctus , Hypselobarbus dubius , H . micropogon , Kantaka brevidorsalis , Labeo kontius , Tor remadevii and Hemibagrus punctatus . Eight species found in Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary are threatened, including two ( Tor remadevii and Hemibagrus punctatus ) listed as ‘Critically Endangered’, four species ( Dawkinsia arulius , Hypselobarbus dubius , H . micropogon , and Silonia childreni ) as ‘Endangered’ and two ( Hyporhamphus xanthopterus and Wallago attu ) as ‘Vulnerable’ on the IUCN Red List. References Abd, I.M., C. Rubec & B.W. Coad (2009). Key Biodiversity Areas: rapid assessment of fish fauna in southern Iraq. BioRisk 3: 161–171. https://doi.org/10.3897/biorisk.3.15 Baby, F., J. Tharian, A. Ali & R. Raghavan (2010). A checklist of freshwater fishes of the New Amarambalam Reserve Forest (NARF), Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 2(12): 1330–1333. https://doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o2497.1330-3 Chacko, P.I., G.K. Kuriyan & S. Thyagarajan (1954). A survey of the fisheries the Cauvery river. Contributions of the Freshwater Fisheries Biological Station, Madras, 12: 1–19. Chandra, N.S.S. (2014). 19 new bird species found in Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary. Deccan Herald. Retrieved from Electronic version accessed June 24, 2015 http://www.deccanherald.com/content/380577/03919-bird-species-found-cauvery.html Chidambaram, S., A.L. Ramanathan, R. Thilagavathi & N. Ganesh (2018). Cauvery River, pp. 353–366. In: Singh, D.S. (eds). The Indian Rivers. Springer Hydrogeology, Singapore, xxi 551pp. Day, F. (1867a). On the fishes of the Neilgherry Hills and rivers around their bases. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867 (part 2): 281–302. Day, F. (1867b) On some fishes from the Wynaad. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867 (part 2): 347–350. Fricke, R., W.N. Eschmeyer & R. van der Laan (eds.) (2020). Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Retrieved from Electronic Version Accessed 24 June 2020 http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp Froese, R. & D. Pauly (eds) (2019). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version (12/2019). Gubbi, S., V. Reddy, H. Nagashettihalli, R. Bhat & M.D. Madhusudan (2014). Photographic records of the Ratel Mellivora capensis from the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Small Carnivore Conservation 50: 42–44. Hora, S.L. (1942) A list of fishes of the Mysore state and of the neighbouring hill ranges of the Nilgiris, Wynaad and Coorg. Records of the Indian Museum 44: 193–200. IUCN (2020). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.1. . Downloaded on 26.04.2020. Jayaram, K.C. (1981). Cauvery river ecosystem and the patterns of its fish distribution. Bulletin of the Zoological Survey of India 4(3): 289–294. Jayaram, K.C. (1999). The Freshwater Fishes of the Indian Region. Narendra Publishing House, New Delhi, India. 551pp. Jayaram, K.C., T. Venkateshwarlu, M.B. Raghunathan (1982). A survey of the Cauvery River system with a major account of its fish fauna. Occasional Papers of the Zoological Survey of India 36, 115pp. Jerdon, T.C. (1849). The fishes of Southern India. Madras Journal of Literature and Science 15: 139–149, 302–346. Kaggere, N. (2020). Indian Grey Wolf documented for the first time in Karnataka’s Chamarajanagar. Deccan Herald News Paper, online addition. May 09 2020, 14:09 IST. Management of Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary (n.d.). Retrieved from Accessed on 26 June 2020. Manna, R.K., A.K. Das, D.N. Sigh & M.F. Khan (2005). Occurrence of fresh water jellyfish, Limnocnida indica (Annadale) in Hemavathi reservoir and its limnological perspective. Indian Journal of Fisheries 52(4): 483–487. Nelson, J.S., T.C. Grande & M.V.H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, xlii 707pp. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119174844 Pinder, A.C. & R. Raghavan (2013). Conserving the endangered mahseers (Tor sp.) of India: the positive role of recreational fisheries. Current Science 104(11): 1472–1475. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24092466 Pinder, A.C., R. Raghavan & R.J. Britton (2015). The legendary humpback mahseer (Tor sp.) of India’s River Cauvery: an endemic fish swimming towards extinction. Endangered Species Research 28: 11–17. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00673 Pinder, A.C., A. Manimekalan, J.D.M. Knight, P. Krishnankutty, R. J. Britton, S. Philip, N. Dahanukar & R. Raghavan (2018). Resolving the taxonomic enigma of the iconic game fish, the Hump-backed Mahseer from the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India. PLOS ONE 13(6): e0199328 Pinder, A.C., R. Raghavan & R.J. Britton (2020). From scientific obscurity to conservation priority: research on angler catch rates is the catalyst for saving the hump-backed mahsee