Labeo fisheri is an endemic and endangered freshwater fish of Sri Lanka. Mainly restricted to the upper reaches of the Mahaweli River basin, it has been previously reported living in deep rapids and among large rocks and boulders. An accidental record of a Labeo fisheri specimen from Victoria ...
This study was aimed to develop captive breeding and nurture the young of stonesucker (Garra ceylonensis, Bleeker), a small threatened freshwater fish species endemic to Sri Lanka. Breeding of stonesucker was possible under indoor conditions without hormonal stimulation. They were single spawners havi...
particularly endemic species because their richness exceeds the one of mainland species by a factor of 9.5 and 8.1, respectively, for plants and vertebrates5. To date, efforts to assess scenarios of biodiversity changes in the context of future climate change rarely focus on island ecosystems8,9....
informants from Londji claimed to burn any plant to repel insect. This is a gap in ethnobotanical knowledge that needed to be spelled out. In Lolodorf and surroundings, 9 plants species were documented (Elaeis guineensis,Chromolaena
However, the possible avoidance of potential "competition" among the three species is discussed. Puntius nigrofasciatus was found to be a serial spawner with a number of spawning periods in a year. The fecundity of this species was found to vary between 151 and 638 for fish ranging in ...
1. Introduction The Western Ghats (WG) region in India, part of the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka Biodiversity Hotspot is globally renowned for its diversity of endemic amphibian, reptile, and fish species [1鈥 3]. The two endemic chelonian genera in the WG are represented by the Travancore ...
cryptic speciesdispersalvicarianceAim The Western Ghats Hotspot in peninsular India harbours remarkable diversity and endemism of freshwater fish. However, the ichthyofauna's evolutionary histories and biogeography are poorly known. Here, we investigate (a) the diversity, evolutionary history and ...
The moonrat is the only species of the genus Echinosorex. It is sometimes called the common gymnure, and its closest living relatives are Asian and Philippine gymnures (genera Hylomys and Podogymnura). All are classified in the family Erinaceidae of the order Erinaceomorpha, which belongs to...