FISH FAUNA IN GIANH RIVER BASIN, QUANG BINH PROVINCE, NORTH CENTRE VIETNAM

Ho Anh TUAN, Ngo Xuan QUANG*, Laurenţia UNGUREANU**, Dumitru BULAT** Vinh University, Moldova State University *Institute of Tropical Biology – Ho Chi Minh city – Vietnam ** Institute of Zoology (Academy of Sciences of Moldova)

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  • USM ADMIN Studia Universitas Moldaviae

Abstract

We carried out 12 field surveys in 2003 - 2011 at 36 study sites and collected 5699 specimens. Over time of analysis, we have identified 181 fish species belong to 139 genera, 64 families of 16 orders of the ichthyofauna in Gianh River, 5 rare species recorded in the Red Book of Vietnam (2007), 84 species having economic value, 68 species in upstream, 64 species distributed in the middle, 61 species in downstream and 100 species in the estuary. Keywords: Cypriniformes, Perciformes, Fish fauna, Phong Nha – Ke Bang, classification, Vietnam, Gianh river, Quang Binh.

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USM ADMIN, Studia Universitas Moldaviae

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Published

2015-05-01

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No. 1 (2015): Nr. 1

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