Check List 8(3): 408-413, doi: 10.15560/8.3.408
Fish checklist of Perak River, Malaysia
Zarul Hazrin Hashim‡, Rosli Yeop Zainuddin§, Amir Shah Ruddin Md. Shah§, Shahrul Anuar Mohd. Sah§, Mohd. Syaiful Mohammad|, Mashhor Mansor§‡ Universiti Sains Malaysia; Mississippi State University, United States of America§ Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia| Pulau Banding Rainforest Research Center, Malaysia
Corresponding author: Zarul Hashim ( zarulzorro@yahoo.com ) © 2017 Zarul Hashim, Rosli Zainuddin, Amir Shah, Shahrul Sah, Mohd. Mohammad, Mashhor Mansor. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Hashim Z, Mansor M, Shah A, Mohammad M, Sah S, Mansor M (2012) Fish checklist of Perak River, Malaysia. Check List 8(3): 408-413. https://doi.org/10.15560/8.3.408 |  |
Abstract
Out of the 1000 species of freshwater fish documented in the South-East Asian Tropics, 420 species can be found in Malaysia. Based on experimental gill net studies, Perak River recorded a total of 107 fish species, which comprises of 33 families with Cyprinidae as the dominant family, with 43 species. The fluctuating number of species and species replacement in the upstream direction in this river reflects the orientation of the River Continuum Concept. Gradient changes of salinity, habitat heterogeneity, water velocity and riverbed materials are some of the factors that may contribute to the fluctuation and species replacement.
Keywords
ichthyofauna; Malaysia; freshwater fish