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Five species of fish were collected at Paresnath Hill by Dr. Annandale and myself in April 1909. They were obtained from a stream known as Sita Nullah at a height of 2.150 feet.
The specimens belong to three families, viz.
The following list comprises two collections, one made by Mr. Hodgart, Museum collector, in the neighbourhood of Gopkuda Island in August 1907; the other by myself near Satpara in December 1908.
Satpara lies at the landward extremity of the narrow channel which connects Lake Chilka with the sea, whereas Gopkuda is far removed from the entrance.
On the way to the Lake (December 8th, 1908) three specimens of fish were purchased in the bazaar at Balgaon (B. N. Railway). These were identified as -
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Two collections of Burmese fish have recently been added to the Indian Museum; one was purchased by Dr. Annandale in the market at Mandalay (March 1908), while the other was obtained by Mr. J. Coggin Brown of the Geological Survey of India at Bhamo, Upper Burma, in January 1909. Some of the specimens in the latter collection were obtained from a tank (T), others from the Irrawaddy River (R).
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1 This is very probably a wrong identification. It is very probably C. panaw . For a detailed discussion see the first description of C. panaw by P. Musikasinthorn . [snakeheads.org] Back
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