Biodiversity, Ecological status and Conservation priority of the fishes of river Gomti, Lucknow (U.P., India)

The studies of fish fauna of different water bodies were made by different workers. However, the study of ichthyofauna of the Gomti River at Lucknow is scanty. This paper deals with the fish fauna of the Gomti river at Lucknow (Latitude: 26o 51N and Longitude: 80o 58E). A systematic list of 70 species have been prepared containing two endangered, six vulnerable, twelve indeterminate and fifty not evaluated species, belonging to nine order, twenty one families and forty two genera respectively. Scientific names, morphological character, fin-formula, local name, common name etc. of each species was studied giving a generalized idea about finfishes of Lucknow.