Language: English
There is a great demand on the world market for ornamental fish from India. India is one of the few countries having numerous colourful fish for the ornamental fish trade. These fishes show a wide geographic distribution and reflect great taxonomic and ecological diversity. This diversity is displayed in an astonishing variety of colours, body shapes, locomotion, behavioural patterns, reproductive tactics, feeding behaviours and other unique environmental adaptations. This book is an attempt to provide pictorial descriptions of most of the ornamental fishes of India. Although some species rnight nave been left out, major families, genera and species as per the available literature has been incorporated.