An Annotated Checklist of Fish Faunal Diversity of Sathiyamoorthy Sagar Reservoir, Tamil Nadu, India
Ashika Devi
Department of Fisheries Resource Management, College of Fishery Science, Andhra Pradesh Fisheries University, Muthukur, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh (524 344), India.
A. Balasubramanian *
Department of Fisheries Resource Management, College of Fishery Science, Andhra Pradesh Fisheries University, Muthukur, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh (524 344), India.
T. Neeraja
Department of Aquatic Animal Health Management, College of Fishery Science, Andhra Pradesh Fisheries University, Narasapuram, Andhra Pradesh, India.
D. Ramalingaiah
Department of Fisheries Resource Management, College of Fishery Science, Andhra Pradesh Fisheries University, Muthukur, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh (524 344), India.
N. Jesintha
Department of Fisheries Resource Management, College of Fishery Science, Andhra Pradesh Fisheries University, Muthukur, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh (524 344), India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Sathiyamoorthy Sagar Reservoir, also known as Poondi Reservoir, is the reservoir built across the Kotralai River near Poondi, a small village in Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu State. An intensive survey was conducted on the fish faunal diversity of the reservoir for a period of 12 months from January 2022 to December 2022 and documented a total of 51 species including 49 species of finfish and 2 species of shellfish. In the finfish group, the order Cypriniformes was observed to have the highest contribution to the diversity (39.2% with 20 species) followed by Siluriformes (15.6% with 8 species). Macrobrachium malcomsonii and Macrobrachium rosenbergii are the two prawn species reported from the Sathiyamoorthy Sagar Reservoir.
Keywords: Fish faunal diversity, Sathiyamoorthy Sagar Reservoir, Tamil Nadu