Nutritional Freshwater Life
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Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Common name: Finescale razorbelly
minnow, silver fish.
Distribution: Asia: India and Bangladesh (Torres, 1991m; Bashar, 2013).
Habitat: Rivers, canals, beels.
Description: This species has an elongated body that is laterally compressed.
Eyes are situated at the anterior part of
head. Abdominal profile cuts behind the
base of the pectoral. Lower jaw extends
up to the front margin of the orbit. Dorsal
fin begins opposite the origin of the anal
fin. Pectoral fin does not reach pelvic fin.
Caudal fin is deeply forked. Lateral line
is complete and curved gently downward. Body is silvery with a bright and
silvery lateral band. It grows to a maximum length of 12 cm (Bashar, 2013).
Proximate Composition (% WW)
Moisture
Ash
Protein
Lipid
75.86
3.25
17.23
3.66
Source: Data from Ahmed et al. (2012).
Salmophasia bacaila Hamilton 1822 (= Oxygaster bacaila)
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Common name: Large razorbelly
minnow.
Distribution: Pakistan, northern India,
Bangladesh, Nepal, and Afghanistan
(Devi and Dahanukar, 2013).
Habitat: Freshwater and brackish
water; slow-running streams, rivers,
ponds, and inundated fields.
Description: Body of this species is elongated and strongly compressed. Mouth is
oblique. Lower jaw has a well-developed
symphysial knob. Scales are very small.
There is a good space between anal and
caudal fins. Lateral line is concave. Body
is darkish dorsally and rest of the body
is silvery. It grows to a maximum size of
17.5 cm (Bashar, 2010b).
Nutritional Facts
Proximate Composition (% DM)
Moisture CHO a
Protein
Fat
Ash
3.08
20.22
13.75
18.43 0.99
a Carbohydrate.
Amino Acids (% DM)
Methionine Tryptophan
0.99
0.98
Source: Ali et al. (2013).
Parachela siamensis Günther 1868
(= Oxygaster oxygastroides)