Overview for Freshwater Fishes: A Practical Approach
It has always been a matter of pleasure to study the fish fauna of river Godavari. While surveying the river stretch, surprisingly, some new species have been noticed having characters similar to hill streams. Hence detailed survey of the fish fauna has been undertaken to prepare the ready reckoner by providing basic information to identify the species. There are materials available on the Indian freshwater fishes with sufficient information by the renowned scientists of the country but, no comprehensive data available on the fishes of the rive Godavari and its rivulets, a major source for the fish fauna of the region. I do not claim that, information about the fishes is sufficient to the extent of research, but it definitely useful to the student at undergraduate and post-graduate levels. It is also useful to the researchers who are working on biological aspects of freshwater fishes to some extent.
To make it comprehensive and the demand of post-graduate student having fishery science as a special subject, some of the topics like water analysis, biochemical estimations and hematological estimations have been included for the methodological approaches while studying fish biology. Hence, it could be useful to undergraduate and post-graduate students of biology stream of any university studying fishery science as an optional subject.
Y K Khillare (Author)
Prof. V.K. Khilare born in 1956 has completed M.Sc. (1981) and Ph.D. (1985) from then Marathwada University Aurangabad, (M.Sc.) India and Post doctoral studies from University of Gdansk, Laboratory of Marine biology. Hel Poland in the year 1994-1995 under the science exchange program Government of India. He has received honors and awards like Best paper presentation award (AFB, India), 1990, 'Young scientist award' by Dutch scientific society, the Netherlands, 1991; Government of Maharashtra award for scientific contribution in fishery science, 1992 and Bajirao patil award for life time achievements in the field of science 2007.
At present he is professor in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Auarangabad, Maharashtra state in fish biology and guided 15 research students for their Ph.D. degree. He has 70 research papers to his credit published in National and international journals and completed two major and 4 minor U.G.C. projects.
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