Checklist of the inland fish community at Kampung Asah And Kampung Mukut, Tioman Island, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia

M., Aqmal-Naser and B. A., Amirrudin (2018) Checklist of the inland fish community at Kampung Asah And Kampung Mukut, Tioman Island, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia. [Journal / Magazine]

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Abstract

Inland fishes of Pulau Tioman have been studied in the past by several researchers. To date, the total number of inland fishes of Pulau Tioman is 62. This study was initiated in order to update the checklist based on the surveys done in the southern part of Pulau Tioman at Kampung Asah and Kampung Mukut in 2016. In this study, we used hand held push net with mesh size 3 mm, plus cast net with the mesh size of 10 mm and hook-and-line to sample fishes from various inland water bodies found in the study area. Twenty-two species of fishes are presently known from the southern drainages in Pulau Tioman, in particular, at Kampung Asah and Kampung Mukut. Seven species were recorded for the first time at Pulau Tioman, namely Abudefduf bengalensis (Pomacentridae), Bathygobius sp. 1 (Gobiidae), Bathygobius fuscus (Gobiidae), Drombus triangularis (Gobiidae), Enneapterygius sp. 1 (Tripterygiidae), Omobranchus elongatus (Blennidae) and Oreochromis mossambicus (Chiclidae) bring the total number of inland fishes to 69 species. Most of the newly recorded species were collected in stream channels close to the sea. The presence of the introduced species, Oreochromis hybrid and Oreochromis mossambicus were restricted to several isolated landscape ponds at Kampung Mukut and none were recorded in the natural drainages there. The increasing number of newly recorded species, although contains mostly brackish fishes in stream closed to the sea showed that this habitat is ichthyodiverse and should be safeguarded to sustain the diversity of inland fish fauna of the island.

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