Taxonomic registry of freshwater fishes in southern Nueva Ecija, Phippines
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2019
Authors
Elaiza Rose M. Soriano
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A taxonomic study was conducted to identify the species of commercially available freshwater fishes in Southern Nueva Ecija within August 2017 to July 2018. Different commercial freshwater finish products were collected from different fishing grounds including fishing landing sites, vendors on municipal markets and barangay based vendors. Fish samples were dead upon purchasing, specimen were initially classified as to phenotypes. All fish specimen was technically photographed; reference plate was also included in each photograph. As for morphological identification, all were initially classified and txonomically identified to family and genus level based from Fish Base (www.fisbase.org)(Force & Pauly, 2015). A total of ten (10) species of freshwater finish were collected belonging to eight (8) families. The family with the most number of species collected are Cichlidae, and Cyprinidae with two species each followed by Anguillidae, Centrarchidae, Channidae, Clariidae, Gobiidae, and Terapontidae with one species each.