Threatened fishes of the world: Wallago attu (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Siluriformes: Siluridae)

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 277-278

  Hossain, Md Yeamin ^a,c   Ahmed, Zoarder Faruque ^b   Ohtomi, Jun ^a   Ibrahim, Abu Hanif Md ^c   El Kady, Mohamed A H ^a   Fulanda, Bernerd ^a   Chakraborty, Susanta Kumar ^d  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BANGLADESH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

^d VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Asian silurid catfish; Endangered; Establishment of sanctuaries

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FISHING; LAW ENFORCEMENT; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TELEOST;

PISCES; SILURIDAE; SILURIFORMES; WALLAGO ATTU;

EID: 45849122137     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-007-9281-y     Document Type: Article

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