STUDY ON LIMNOLOGICAL PARAMETER AND ICTHYOFAUNAL BIODIVERSITY IN PUTKA RESERVOIR OF SARANGARH DISTRICT RAIGARH, CHHATTISGARHPeeyoosh Tiwari Jaiswal, Prakash Kumar Jaiswal, K.R. Sahu and Pratibha PandeyAbstract Biodiversity is the variability and variety of organism on planet the earth which is a mega ecosystem. Biodiversity can be observed at gene level, species level and ecosystem level. First life was originated in the water and first organism was also aquatic so water is called as life, water cover 71% of earth. Water is a important and essential abiotic factor of all kinds of ecosystems and also forms the habitat for enormous variety of organism in other words water form the biggest ecosystem, the aquatic ecosystem of the biosphere. The aim of the present study to observe Ichthyofaunal biodiversity in Putka reservoir. Investigation were undertaken during July 2020 to June 2021 in putka reservoir District Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, India at the time of study the fish sample were collected with help of local fishermen by using different types of nets and crafts. The fish sample were fixed in 10% formalin solution and kept in containers then transported to laboratory for further studies, identification of fishes have been done. In this study total number of 19 fish species of the 10 genera have been identified which are including to 06 families of 04 orders namely Cpriniformes, Perciformes, Clupeiformes and Beloniformes. The order Cypriniformes was the most dominant group representing 14 species. Out the 19 species, 14 species are belonging to Cypriniformes (8 species of family cyprindae, 2 of Siluridae, 04 of Bagiridae) 2 species are belonging to order perciformes, 1 species of order Beloniformes and 2 species are belonging to clupeiformes. |