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Inspiration
of the fish group... the Chinese characters here mean prosperity
year after year |
The freshwater fish research program is focused on Southeast Asia, with
emphasis on catfishes, fighting fishes and the fauna of peat swamps.
The research from these areas has thus far, been the most productive.
The freshwater fish is helped substantially by the ZRC's honorary
research associate, M. Kottelat.
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There are currently one academic staff (Dr P. K.
L. Ng) and four MSc students working on the systematics of fishes. One
PhD, one MSc and four Honours students in ichthyology have graduated on
the basis of work on freshwater fishes over the last 10 years.
The
knight goby, Stigmatogobius
sadanundio, a pretty aquarium fish species commonly found in
estuarine habitats |
The
slender rasbora, Rasbora subtilis, from Sumatra |
The
freshwater puffer fish, Tetraodon palembangensis, shortly after
being caught by fishermen for food |
A puffed
up freshwater puffer fish |
The
infamous eel-loach, Pangio semicincta, a "bread and
butter" species for the aquarium trade |
The
rarely seen fire-eyed loach, Barbucca diabolica |
The fish program is extremely active, and at the moment involves
ongoing collaborations with:
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Maurice Kottelat,
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Lynne Parenti (USA),
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Helen Larson (Australia),
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Ralf Britz (Germany),
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Darrell Siebert (England),
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Mario di Pinna (Brazil),
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Keith Martin-Smith (England),
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Julian Dodson (Canada),
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Ike Rachmatika (Indonesia) and
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Mai Dinh Yen (Vietnam).
An interesting article
on snakeheads by Prof Peter Ng and Mr Kelvin Lim has been published
on the web at http://www.snakeheads.org.
The article Snakeheads
(Pisces: Channidae): Natural History, Biology and economic Importance
was first published in: Essays in Zoology, papers commemorating
the 40th of the Department of Zoology, National University of
Singapore, Singapore by Chou, L.M.and P.K.L. Ng (eds.) 1990, pp.
127-152.
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