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A regional information system on fishes from the Western Ghats, India: Its design, implementation and utility

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Title A regional information system on fishes from the Western Ghats, India: Its design, implementation and utility
 
Creator Pathak, Ajey Kumar
Singh, Shri Prakash
Dayal, Rajesh
Sarkar, Uttam Kumar
Chaturvedi, Reeta
 
Subject Fish Biodiversity Information System
Information System
Database
Western Ghats
Fish
 
Description 1305-1309
Present study discusses design and implementation of an information system for fish biodiversity of Western Ghats region. The system was developed by collating data from published reliable sources and applying Visual Basic language, MSACESS database and ADOBE image technologies for the Windows platform. The system through different search options provides ability to browse taxonomic, distribution, conservation status, morphology, environment and other fishery information of fish species of interest with good quality images. It incorporates information on 373 fish species belonging to 45 families and 141 genus. Of the 373 fish species,141 are endemic to this region and 8 are exotic. This serves as fish checklist resource of this region.
 
Date 2016-10-18T06:41:02Z
2016-10-18T06:41:02Z
2016-10
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/35720
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.45(10) [October 2016]