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Database on catfishes of India.

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Title Database on catfishes of India.
 
Creator PATHAK, A K
SINGH, S P
DAYAL, RAJESH
SARKAR, U K
CHATURVEDI, REETA
KUMAR, RAVI
 
Subject Catfishes, Database, Fish species, Habitat, Taxonomy
 
Description The introduction of computer processing and computer databases have provided opportunities to store vast amountof data and open this vast data store to many new uses (Chapman 1999). The data store managed through databasemanagement system provides valuable information especially for decision making and planning. In this communication,we used the database management system and application programming interface (API) to develop the CD version ofdatabase for 169 catfishes belonging to 14 families, 15 subfamilies and 55 genera from different ecosystems of Indiaproviding information on taxonomy, common name, group name, vernacular name, synonyms, habitat, residentenvironment, distribution, morphological characters, economic importance, threatened status and fishery informationin addition to fish photographs and references. In the database of 169 catfishes, 139 are freshwater species, 01 is marinespecies, 12 species are common to both fresh and brackish waters; 6 species are common to fresh, brackish and marinewaters and 11 species are common to brackish and marine waters. The database contains 102 key references and 200photographs and was developed using the MSACCES relational database management system and Microsoft VisualBasic 6.0 enterprise edition technologies under Windows XP environment. Open database connectivity (ODBC)programming interface was used in the API to access data in database management system. The principal objective ofthe study was to provide a low-cost product with recent information on the catfishes from India to the scientific community,researchers, educationists and students of fisheries domain.
 
Publisher Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture
 
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Date 2013-01-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/26502
 
Source The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences; Vol 83, No 1 (2013)
0367-8318
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/26502/12109
 
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