Fishes of the Kangchenjunga Landscape

This checklist contains a total of 194 fish species documented from the Kangchenjunga Landscape. This information has been collated from the Kangchenjunga Landscape country level feasibility assessment reports of Bhutan, India and Nepal.

Date ( Creation ): 2019-02-04

Author

ICIMOD - Pratikshya Kandel ( Research Associate Biodiversity )

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Resource provider

GB Pant National Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development (GBPNIHESD) - Kailash Gaira ( Programme Coordinator )

Gangtok , India

http://gbpihed.gov.in/

Resource provider

Research Centre for Applied Science and Technology (RECAST) - Yadav Uprety ( Programme Coordinator )

Kathmandu , Nepal

https://www.recast.edu.np/

Purpose: This database is created to provide open access data sets for both checklist and occurrence data to contribute interests of academic fraternity and informed decision making process.

Status: Completed

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Keywords ( Theme )

Ichthyofauna
Fishes
Biodiversity

Keywords ( Place )

Kangchenjunga Landscape
Eastern Nepal
India
Western Bhutan
Sikkim and West Bengal
HKH-BIF

Use limitation: ICIMOD (2018) Fishes of the Kangchenjunga Landscape (Nepal and India).

Use limitation: GBPNIHESD. (2014). Feasibility Assessment Report KL-India. Unpublished report. GB Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment and Sustainable Development, Sikkim Unit, India.

Use limitation: RECAST (2014). Feasibility assessment report KL Nepal. Research Centre for Applied Science and Technology, Tribhuvan University. Kathmandu: Nepal

Access constraints: Copyright

Use constraints: Copyright

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Metadata language: eng

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Biota

Description: The Kangchenjunga Landscape encompasses the southern stretch of landscape surrounding Mt Kangchenjunga (8586m), which spreads over diverse ecological zones in eastern Nepal, North Bengal and Sikkim in India, and western Bhutan.