Download or read book The Marine and Fresh Water Fishes of Ceylon written by Ian Stafford Ross Munro and published by Daya Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Important Throughly Illustrated, And Exhaustive Work That Lists, Classifies And Describes All The Known Fish Fauna Of Ceylon. Offers A Systematic Enumeration Of The Entire Range Of Fishes Under Two Broad Classes - Elasmobranchii And Teleostomi 28 Different Orders, Various Sub Orders And Families, And Over 800 Species. All The Necessary Details And Data Have Been Provided For Each Of The Species Under Its Description. And For An Easier Identification, There Is An Illustration Corresponding To Each Of The Species. The Utility Of The Text, For The Concerned Scholars And Researchers, Has Been Enhanced By Incorporating A Meticulously Compiled Glossary Of Technical Terms; Aptly Labelled Sketches; A List Of Over 100 References To Relevant Literature; And A Comprehensive Index With Cross References To Scientific Names And Vernacular Names In The English, Sinhalese And Tamil Languages. Needless To Mention That The Book Has A High And Lasting Reference Value. Contents Part 1- Sharks, Skates And Rays (Class Elasmo-Branchii); Chapter 1: Sharks (Order Lamniforms); Chapter 2: Saw-Fishes, Skates And Rays (Order Rajiformes); Chapter 3: Electric Rays (Order Torpediniformes); Part 2- Bony Fish (Class Teleostomi); Chapter 4: Herring-Like Fishes (Order Clupeiformes); Chapter 5: Deep-Sea Lantern Fishes, Lizard-Fishes (Order Scopeliformes); Chapter 6: Carps, Barbs, Loaches And Cat-Fish (Order Cypriniformes); Chapter 7: Eels, Moryas, Congers (Order Anguilliformes); Chapter 8: Deep-Sea Lizard-Fish (Order Halosauriformes); Chapter 9: Garfish, Needle-Fish, Half-Beaks, Flying Fish (Order Beloniforms); Chapter 10: Deep-Sea Cod (Order Gadiformes); Chapter 11: Rat-Tails, Whip-Tails (Order Macruriformes); Chapter 12: Pipe Fish, Sea Horses, Flute Mouths, Razor Fish (Order Syngnathiformes); Chapter 13: Top-Minnows, Killifish (Order Cyprinodontiformes); Chapter 14: Red-Fish, Slime Heads, Knight Fish Soldier Fish (Order Beryciformes); Chapter 15: Boar Fish (Order Zeiformes); Chapter 16: Pike, Barracuda, Grey Mullet, Hardyheads (Order Mugiliformes); Chapter 17: Thread-Fins, Tassel Fish (Order Polynemiformes); Chapter 18: Snake-Heads (Order Ophiocephaliformes); Chapter 19: Shore Eels (Order Symbranchiformes); Chapter 20: Perch-Like Fishes (Order Perciformes); Suborder Percoidei, Suborder Blennioidei, Suborder Ophidioidei, Suborder Callionymoidei, Suborder Siganoidei, Suborder Acanthuroidei, Suborder Trichiuroidei, Suborder Scombroidei, Suborder Stromatroidei, Suborder Anabantoidei, Suborder Kurtoidei, Suborder Gobioidei, Suborder Cottoidei; Chapter 21: Flying Gurnards (Order Dactylopteriformes); Chapter 22: Flatfishes, Soles, Flounders (Order Pleuronectiformes); Chapter 23: Spiny Eels (Order Mastacembeliformes); Chapter 24: Suckerfish, Remoras (Order Echeneiformes); Chapter 25: Trigger-Fish, File-Fish, Leather-Jackets, Box-Fish, Globe-Fish, File-Fish, Sun-Fish (Order Tetradontiformes); Suborder Balistoidei, Suborder Ostracioidei, Suborder Tetradontoidei, Suborder Moloidei; Chapter 26: Frogfish (Order Batrachoidiformes); Chapter 27: Angler-Fish, Monkfish, Handfish, Fishing Frogfish (Order Lophiformes); Chapter 28: Dragon-Fish (Order Pegasiformes).

Download or read book Field guide to reef fishes of Sri Lanka written by Arjan Rajasuriya and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hope is that this field guide, along with its companion, volume 1, will be useful resources for snorkelers, divers, and all those interested in marine life in expanding their knowledge on identification of species found in the reef habitats of Sri Lanka.

Download or read book A selection of rare and curious fishes found upon the coast of Ceylon from drawings made in that island coloured from life written by John Whitchurch Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sri Lankan Freshwater Fishes written by Madura De Silva and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Marine and Fresh Water Fishes of Ceylon written by Ian S. R. Munro and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Fishes of India written by Francis Day and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Freshwater Fishes of Sri Lanka written by Rohan Pethiyagoda and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book British Fresh water Fishes written by William Houghton and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon written by Sir James Emerson Tennent and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Fauna of Sri Lanka written by Channa N. B. Bambaradeniya and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2006 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conservation of Freshwater Fishes written by Gerry Closs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global assessment of the current state of freshwater fish biodiversity and the opportunities and challenges to conservation.

Download or read book Lagoons of Sri Lanka written by Silva, E. I. L. and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sri Lanka, an island in the Indian Ocean, has lagoons along 1,338 km of its coastline. They experience low-energy oceanic waves and semidiurnal microtidal currents. The Sri Lankan coastal lagoons are not numerous but they are diverse in size, shape, configuration, ecohydrology, and ecosystem values and services. The heterogeneous nature, in general, and specific complexities, to a certain extent, exhibited by coastal lagoons in Sri Lanka are fundamentally determined by coastal and adjoining hinterland geomorphology, tidal fluxes and fluvial inputs, monsoonal-driven climate and weather, morphoedaphic attributes, and cohesive interactions with human interventions.Most coastal lagoons in Sri Lanka are an outcome of mid-Holocene marine transgression and subsequent barrier formation and spit development enclosing the water body between the land and the sea. This process has varied from one coastal stretch to another due to wave-derived littoral drift, sediment transport by tidal fluxes, fluvial inputs and wave action or, in other words, sea-level history, shore-face dynamics and tidal range as the three major factors that control the origin and maintenance of the sandy barrier, the most important features for the formation and evolution of coastal lagoons with their landward water mass. In certain stretches of Sri Lanka’s coastline, formation of the barrier spit was very active due to shore-face dynamics that resulted in chains of shore parallel, elongated lagoons. They are among the most productive in terms of ecosystem yield and show some similarities to large tropical lagoons with respect to sea entrance, zonation, biodiversity and ecosystem services. However, some of them become seasonally hypersaline due to lack of freshwater input and high evaporation. Functions and processes of some of these water bodies are fairly known. There are a fair number of small back-barrier lagoons of different shapes and sizes whose origin goes back to sea-level history. They are located on low-energy coasts with prominent beach ridges and restricted hinterland geomorphology. Mixing processes of these landward indentations are hindered by elevated sand dunes, and their salinity increases due to poor freshwater input and high evaporation leading to seasonally hypersaline conditions. These sedimented lagoons, primarily confined to the southeastern coast of the island, are biologically the least productive, with limited ecosystem values and services. Another group of moderately elongated semicircular, slightly large lagoons in the same coast, formed exclusively by submergence due to mid-Holocene sea-level rises, do not receive sufficient freshwater input leading to seasonally hypersaline conditions. They are also biologically unproductive but some are ecologically important since they provide habitats conducive to migratory birds. In contrast, some lagoons on the southern coast receive sufficient freshwater via streams draining the wet zone, maintain more estuarine salinities, exhibit rich biodiversity and serve as functional resource units. Lagoons formed by mid-Holocene submergence and recession of water level with simultaneous chain barrier formation on the high energy southwest coast, which includes cliffs, small bays and headlands, show peculiar configurations and link channel characteristics. Some of these irregular water bodies have clusters of small isles and luxuriant mangrove swamps with high biodiversity but not very rich in catadromous finfish and shellfish species due to the restricted nature of the entrance channel and nondistinct salinity gradients. The barrier-built, seasonally hypersaline lagoon complex in the Jaffna Peninsula, the largest lagoon system in the country with multiple perennial entrances show extremely narrow salinity ranges towards the upper limit of salinity. The main lagoon is elongated and the shore parallel to eastward and southward extensions is connected by narrow channels. The other lagoon in the Jaffna Peninsula is elongated, shore parallel and ribbon-shaped and receives tidal water throughout the year but freshwater is received only from precipitation and surface runoff. Even though the lagoons in the peninsula are extremely rich in ecosystem heterogeneity their hydrology and hydrodynamics have been severely disturbed by infrastructural development for transportation and by attempts to create a freshwater river for Jaffna. There are a few virgin lagoons of moderate size also on the northern coast, south of the Jaffna Peninsula on both the east and west sides. They look very typical tropical lagoons rich in biodiversity and biological production but their structure, functions and values are virtually unknown in scientific or socioeconomic terms. The lagoons located on the east coast are not numerous but relatively large in extent. They are also an outcome not only of mid-Holocene sea-level rises but of submerged multi-delta valleys or abandoned paleo estuaries. When inundated, the multi-delta valley configuration became elongated and is shore parallel with a smooth seaward shoreline; both shorelines become irregular when coastal waves are weak, and internal waves are created by the action of local winds. Configuration of a lagoon formed by inundation of an abandoned river valley is irregular with a long entrance channel extended landward. These lagoons are highly productive with a variety of associated ecosystems, large open water areas and wide perennial sea entrances. When the lagoon is too much elongated, zonation is prominent due to fewer entrance effects. Lagoons form a particular type of natural capital which generates use values (fish, shrimp, fuelwood, salt, fodder, ecotourism, anchorage, recreation, etc.) and nonuse values (habitat preservation, biodiversity, ecosystem linkages, etc.) contributing positively towards improving the human well-being. Of many values of lagoons in Sri Lanka, only the extractive values are generally utilized at present, by way of fish and shrimp catches, salt production and use of mangrove for various purposes. Besides, coastal lagoons generate a range of nonextractive use values and nonuse values, which could add towards the total economic value. Misuse has taken place at several instances when “use” adversely affects the status of the resources or the health of the ecosystem due to vulnerability and poverty, population pressure, urbanization, development activities and multi-stakeholder issues. The status of lagoon resources shows that the resources in the majority of Sri Lankan lagoons still remain satisfactory, somewhat good or very good. Nevertheless, concerns for management of lagoons in Sri Lanka exist only where “use values” (extractive values, such as fish and shrimp) exist. There is no evidence of resources management in lagoons for inspirational, scholarly values or tacit knowledge of the same. Management for use values exhibits several stages from zero management to comanagement via community management and state intervention. Most of Sri Lanka’s lagoons have the potential for generating high extractive and nonextractive use values which could improve the human well-being, while maintaining resources sustainability. Unfortunately, these potentials have not been understood or “seen” yet by the relevant authorities, although a few instances of exploring this potential were noticed.

Download or read book Fishes of Ceylon written by John Whitchurch Bennett and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Fish Guide Indopacific written by Helmut Debelius and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Real Ceylon written by C. Brooke Elliott and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1995 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fishes of the World written by Joseph S. Nelson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take your knowledge of fishes to the next level Fishes of the World, Fifth Edition is the only modern, phylogenetically based classification of the world’s fishes. The updated text offers new phylogenetic diagrams that clarify the relationships among fish groups, as well as cutting-edge global knowledge that brings this classic reference up to date. With this resource, you can classify orders, families, and genera of fishes, understand the connections among fish groups, organize fishes in their evolutionary context, and imagine new areas of research. To further assist your work, this text provides representative drawings, many of them new, for most families of fishes, allowing you to make visual connections to the information as you read. It also contains many references to the classical as well as the most up-to-date literature on fish relationships, based on both morphology and molecular biology. The study of fishes is one that certainly requires dedication—and access to reliable, accurate information. With more than 30,000 known species of sharks, rays, and bony fishes, both lobe-finned and ray-finned, you will need to master your area of study with the assistance of the best reference materials available. This text will help you bring your knowledge of fishes to the next level. Explore the anatomical characteristics, distribution, common and scientific names, and phylogenetic relationships of fishes Access biological and anatomical information on more than 515 families of living fishes Better appreciate the complexities and controversies behind the modern view of fish relationships Refer to an extensive bibliography, which points you in the direction of additional, valuable, and up-to-date information, much of it published within the last few years Fishes of the World, Fifth Edition is an invaluable resource for professional ichthyologists, aquatic ecologists, marine biologists, fish breeders, aquaculturists, and conservationists.

Download or read book Reef Fishes of the East Indies written by Gerald R. Allen and published by Conservation International Foundation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reef Fishes of the East Indies is a 3-volume set. Stretching from the Andaman Sea to the Solomon Islands, the East Indies encompasses a vast array of marine habitats and unsurpassed marine biological diversity. It is home to approximately 2,600 species occurring on coral reefs and nearby habitats. Reef Fishes of the East Indies presents the first truly comprehensive treatment of the region's reef fish fauna in nearly a century. This monumental three-volume set is richly illustrated with more than 3,600 color photographs. The informative text provides current information on the classification, habitat, and distributional range of each species as well as an overall synopsis for each of the 120 families covered. Many of the featured species have not been previously recorded from the region, nor have their photographs appeared in print. The book represents the culmination of the prolific careers of two dedicated marine biologists, Dr. Gerald R. Allen and Dr. Mark V. Erdmann, who have spent a combined total in excess of 60 years exploring and describing the piscene treasures in the "heart" of marine fish biodiversity. Reef Fishes of the East Indies is an essential reference for biologists, naturalists, and scuba divers. This is the only reference that covers every known reef fish from the East Indian region. The book has been written to engender an appreciation of the region's amazing biodiversity and the urgent need to conserve it for the benefit of future generations.