Authors : N. V. Harney
Page Nos : 185-188
Description :
Molluscs are the environment indicators and play a very important role in maintaining aquatic ecosystem by recycling nutrients and surviving as nutrition for certain aquatic organisms. Also they are important source of food for other animals i.e. fishes, birds and mammals even for human being. In the age of global decline of biodiversity, it is necessary to study the present status of different biota and hence this attempt was made. The present paper deals with check list of diversity of molluscan fauna from Gilbili lake of Chandrapur district in the period February 2019 to January 2020. A total of 14 molluscan species were reported and identified in this paper. These listed species belonging to 02 classes, 03 orders, 07 families and 14 genera. Out of 14 molluscan species 11 species belonging to class Gastropoda and 03 species belonging to class Bivalvia.
