|Scientific Name:||Notopterus notopterus|
|Species Authority:||(Pallas, 1769)|
|Taxonomic Notes:||Notopterus notopterus is a very widespread species that most likely represents a species complex.|
|Red List Category & Criteria:||Least Concern ver 3.1|
|Reviewer/s:||Jha, B.R., Allen, D., Datta, N.C., Britz, R. & Dey, S.C.|
Notopterus notopterus is most likely a species complex (R. Britz, pers. comm.), despite the very wide range as currently accepted. Until the taxonomic issue is resolved, the species is assessed as Least Concern. Further work is required to understand the species taxonomy when a reevaluation is also necessary to assess the status of the species.
|Range Description:||The species is recorded from Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Viet Nam, Malaysia and Indonesia.|
Native:Bangladesh; Cambodia; India; Indonesia; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan; Thailand
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|Population:||It is common throughout its range.|
|Habitat and Ecology:||
The species inhabits fresh and brackish waters, and appears to thrive well in lentic waters.
Owing to its carnivorous nature, this fish can only be cultivated in wild waters or in fattening ponds in which large fish are present. It breeds in stagnant or running water in the rainy season. A ripe female bears relatively fewer eggs; they are laid in small clumps on submerged vegetation. Fingerlings are available in upper reaches of Cauvery in July-August. This fish is relished both in fresh and dried state.
The threats to this species are not known.
More research into population trends in the wild is required to understand the status of this widespread species.
|Citation:||Ng, H.H. 2010. Notopterus notopterus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 22 May 2013.|
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