The paper highlights the fish diversity in major wetlands of Mysore district, Karnataka, India and its conservation status. Forty-five species of fishes belonging to 15 families, 31 genera have been identified. Fish species belonging to genus Puntius were more common in many of these lakes. However it was observed that the fish diversity was decreasing since last two years unprecedently mainly ...

Analyses of chlorpyriphos, ethion and dicofol in the river Deomoni from Terai region of West Bengal revealed mean pesticide residues of chlorpyriphos, dicofol and ethion in water sample as 0.0091 ± 0.0020ppm, 0.0180 ± 0.0071ppm and 0.0892 ± 0.0375 ppm, respectively, in sediments 0.0513 ± 0.0085ppm, 0.0414 ± 0.0045ppm and 0.1271 ± 0.0122ppm and in fish muscles (Puntius sp.) 5.0371 ± 1.4236 ppm, ...

Gnathostomiasis is a helminthic disease most frequently occurring in Thailand. Human infections are usually found to be caused by Gnathostoma spinigerum, although five species of the genus Gnathostoma exist in Thailand, and three of these are capable of infecting man. In Thailand, 47 species of vertebrates--fish (19), frogs (2), reptiles (11), birds (11) and mammals (4)--have been reported to s...

A partire da alcune importanti discrepanze cronologiche nella bibliografia critica dell’Eneide travestia, dove la comparsa del poema è fatta risalire ora al 1632, ’33, ’34, il saggio descrive e riordina materiale attualmente disponibile sul volgarizzamento lalliano, sulle sue vicende compositive sui rapporti tra l’autore corte romana. Stabilita forte continuità che lega le due impressioni “Facc...