Photofeature: Freshwater Fishes of Sunamganj Haor Area (Part N-O)

Nandus nandus (Hamilton-Buchanan, 1822)

English Name: Mud perch, Gangetic leaffish, Mottled Nandus
Bengali Name: Meni (মেনি), Bheda (ভেদা), Roina (রইনা)
IUCN (Bangladesh) Status: Vulnerable

Nemachilus botia (Hamilton-Buchanan, 1822)
[Acanthocobitis botia]

English Name: Mottled loach, Zipper loach, Sand loach
Bengali Name: Balichata (বালিচাটা), Biltari (বিলতারি) and Natwa (নটোয়া)
IUCN (Bangladesh) Status: Data deficient

Nemachilus  zonalternans (Blyth, 1860)
[ Acanthocobitis zonalternans ]

English Name: River loach
Bengali Name: Gutum (গুতুম), Gutea (গুতে), Gutia (গুতিয়া), Kholoi muchuri (খলই মুচুরি), Balichata (বালিচাটা)
IUCN (Bangladesh) Status: Data deficient

Notopterus notopterus  (Pallas, 1769)

English Name: Grey featherback, bronze featherback
Bengali Name: Foli (ফলি) and Pholoi (ফলুই)
IUCN (Bangladesh) Status: Vulnerable

Olyra longicaudata  (Chaudhuri, 1912)
[ Olyra kempi ]

English Name: Himalayan olyra, Bannertail catfish, Longtail catfish
Bengali Name: Bot shingi (বট শিঙ্গি)
IUCN (Bangladesh) Status: Data deficient

Ompok bimaculatus (Bloch, 1797)

English Name: Butter Catfish
Bengali Name: Kani pabda (কানি পাবদা), boali pabda (বোয়ালী পাবদা)
IUCN (Bangladesh) Status: Endangered

Ompok pabda  (Hamilton-Buchanan, 1822)

English Name: Pabdah catfish
Bengali Name:  Madhu pabda (মধু পাবদা) and Pabda (পাবদা)
IUCN (Bangladesh) Status: Endangered

Ompok pabo (Hamilton-Buchanan, 1822)

English Name:  Pabo catfish
Bengali Name:  Pabda (পাবদা)
IUCN (Bangladesh) Status: Endangered

Oreochromis mossambicus

English Name: Mozambique Tilapia
Bengali Name: Tilapia (তেলাপিয়া)
IUCN (Bangladesh) Status: Not listed
Habitat status: Exotic

Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758)

English Name: Nile tilapia
Bengali Name:  Nilotica (নাইলোটিকা), Nile tilapia (নীল তেলাপিয়া), Lilotica (লাইলোটিকা), Lalontica (লালনটিকা)
IUCN (Bangladesh) Status: Not listed
Habitat status: Exotic

Oryzias melastigma  (McClelland, 1839)
Oryzias melastigmus

English Name: Estuarine ricefish
Bengali Name: Bechi (বেচি) and Kanpona (কানপোনা)
IUCN (Bangladesh) Status: Data deficient

Osteobrama cotio  (Hamilton-Buchanan, 1822)

English Name:  Cotio
Bengali Name: Dhela (ঢেলা), Mou (মউ), Moa (মোয়া), Keti (কেটি)
IUCN (Bangladesh) Status: Endangered

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Reference:

• IUCN (Bangladesh), 2000. Red book of threatened fishes of Bangladesh, IUCN (Bangladesh) – The world conservation union in Bangladesh. xii+116 pp.
• Mahalder B and Mustafa MG, 2011. Introduction to Fish Species Diversity-Sunamganj haor region within CBRMP’s working area. Community Based Resource Management Project-LGED, The WorldFish Center-Bangladesh. xvii+75 pp.
• Rahman AKA, 2005. Freshwater fishes of Bangladesh. Zoological Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka. xviii+394 pp.

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