A field visit was conducted on October 16, 2023, at Mashar Hat, Jorhat, headed by course in-charge Dr. Dhiramani Bhuyan and Dr. Luk Bahadur Chetry, respectively. This was for the partial fulfillment of the requirement of their Skill Enhancement Course (SEC) ZOOSK-011 (PR) under the TDC Semester I of B.Sc. in Zoology (Core) programme curriculum.
The main objective of the field visit was to identify the locally available aquarium fish. The following aquarium fish are recorded:
- Amblypharyngodon microlepis (Indian carplet)
- Anabas testudineus (Climbing perch)
- Botia dario (Bengal loach or queen loach)
- Chanda nama (Elongate glassy perchlet)
- Channa marulius (Cobra Snakehead)
- Channa micropeltes (giant snakehead)
- Channa orientalis (Ceylon snakehead)
- Channa punctata (Spotted snakehead)
- Channa striata (Snakeheaded murrel)
- Heteropneustes fossilis (Stinging catfish)
- Labeo bata (Bhagon)
- Macrognathus aral (One-stripe spiny eel)
- Nandus nandus (Gangetic leaffish)
- Dendrobranchiata (Prawn)
- Puntius sarana (Puthi)
- Trichogaster lattices (dwarf gouran)
- Wallago attu (Helicopter Catfish)
- Xenentodon cancila (Freshwater garfish)
