Uncovering an obscure trade: threatened freshwater fishes and the aquarium pet markets

R Raghavan, N Dahanukar, MF Tlusty, AL Rhyne… - Biological …, 2013 - Elsevier
While the collection of fish for the aquarium pet trade has been flagged as a major threat to
wild populations, this link is tenuous for the unregulated wild collection of endemic species …

Marine aquarium trade in India: Challenges and opportunities for conservation and policy

S Prakash, TTA Kumar, R Raghavan, A Rhyne… - Marine Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
The collection of marine taxa for the aquarium trade continues to demand live animals be
extracted from reefs, but in doing so, offers economic benefits for local communities. To …

Status of recreational fisheries in India: development, issues, and opportunities

N Gupta, SD Bower, R Raghavan… - Reviews in Fisheries …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Recreational fishing is an established activity in developed countries across the world. Many
emerging economies have well-established recreational fisheries; however, in countries …

Invasive species in freshwater ecosystems–threats to ecosystem services

R Kiruba-Sankar, JP Raj, K Saravanan… - Biodiversity and climate …, 2018 - Elsevier
Invasive species refers to non-native species that produce negative consequences in the
relatively new habitat or producing effects that human don't like and deem harmful. In the …

Invasion of the Neotropical and Nearctic fishes to Iran

HR ESMAEILI, M MASOUDI, MA CHERMAHINI… - FishTaxa, 2017 - biotaxa.org
Iran harbors a native and highly endemic inland ichthyofauna which is being threatened by
an increasing number of exotic fishes receiving from different geographic realms including …

Jurassic invaders

AB Kumar, S Raj, CP Arjun, U Katwate, R Raghavan - Current Science, 2019 - JSTOR
Climate change and invasive species are two of the greatest threats to global biodiversity,
and their impacts are compounded when they interact with each other1. For example …

The subterranean Aenigmachanna gollum, a new genus and species of snakehead (Teleostei: Channidae) from Kerala, South India.

R Britz, VK Anoop, N Dahanukar, R Raghavan - Zootaxa, 2019 - europepmc.org
Aenigmachanna gollum, new genus and species, is described from Kerala, South India. It is
the first subterranean species of the family Channidae. It has numerous derived and unique …

Aenigmachannidae, a new family of snakehead fishes (Teleostei: Channoidei) from subterranean waters of South India

R Britz, N Dahanukar, VK Anoop, S Philip, B Clark… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Pronounced organism-wide morphological stasis in evolution has resulted in taxa with
unusually high numbers of primitive characters. These 'living fossils' hold a prominent role …

Demographics and exploitation of two Near Threatened freshwater eels, Anguilla bengalensis and Anguilla bicolor, in small‐scale subsistence fisheries and …

A Shanmughan, N Dahanukar… - Aquatic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical freshwater eels (Anguilla bengalensis and Anguilla bicolor) contribute a major
share of the world's wild‐caught eel production, having become the next major target owing …

Diversity, phylogeny and biogeography of Systomus (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) in Sri Lanka

H Sudasinghe, R Pethiyagoda, R Raghavan… - Zoologica …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The South and South‐East Asian freshwater fish genus Systomus (Cyprinidae)
comprises 17 valid species. Six nominal species, including three endemics, have been …