Nandus banshlaii, sp. nov. described from the Banshlai River of West Bengal. This species is distinguished all its congeners in having a golden brown body live and combination characters like longest head snout length (44.28% SL 35.58% HL respectively) two Indian containing largest eye diameter (22.22% HL), pre-dorsal (47.16% SL), shortest pectoral fin (14.60% SL) smallest dorsal base (45.53% S...

Zebrafish are gaining momentum as a laboratory animal species for the study of anxiety-related disorders in translational research, whereby they serve a fundamental complement to laboratory rodents. Several anxiety-related behavioral paradigms, which rest upon the presentation of live predatorial stimuli, may yield inconsistent results due to fatigue, habituation, or idiosyncratic responses exh...

Disease investigation through clinical and histopathological observation of three small indigenous fishes Channa punctatus, Puntius ticto and Nandus nandus were carried out from Shidlong Oxbow Lake and Gangni Oxbow Lake of Mymensingh area during April 2000 to January 2001. Fish sampling were monitored on monthly basis. It was observed that most of the fishes of Shidlong Oxbow Lake were more aff...

A study was conducted to determine the breeding season of endangered Nandus nandus by observing fecundity, somatic indexes, and gonadal cycle development year-round. Samples were collected from different fish landing centers Sadar Upazila Gazipur district. GSI values N. ranged 4.26 ± 0.45 10.28 0.39 while maximum minimum observed in July October, respectively. However, GaSI showed an inverse re...