endemic freshwater fishes in the philippines

2. Pandaca Pigmea

3. Dwarf pygmy gobi is a tropical freshwater
of the family Gobiidae.It is one of the
smallest fish in the world by mass, and is
also one of the shortest freshwater
fish.Mature males can reach up to
1.1cm(0.43in) while the females can grow
up to 1.5cm(0.59in).Average weights is
from 4 to 5 mg .It is known as bia and
tabios in the Philippines.

4. Kanduli

5. Arius manillensis is a species of marine
catfish endemic to the island of
Luzon,Philippines. It is commonly known
as the Manila sea catfish or kanduli. It is
fished commercially.Arius
manillensis was first described by
the french zoologist achille
valenciennes in 1840.

6. It belongs to the genus arius of the
subfamily ariinae, family ariidae (ariid or
fork-tailed catfishes).It should not be
confused with the closely related , also
described by Cephalocassismanillensis
Valenciennes in 1840. Arius
manillensis reach a maximum length of
29.6 cm (11.7 in) (in males)

7. Sinarapan

8. The sinarapan (Mistichthys luzonensis) is
a species of fish in the goby family, Gobiidae,
and the only member of the monotypic
genus Mistichthys. It is endemic to
the Philippines, where it occurs along
the Bicol river and in lakes
buhi,bato,katugday and
Manapao in Camarines Sur. By the 1990s it
had become clear that the sinarapan
was overfished and was nearing extinction.

9.  It was also negatively affected by
introduced species of fish in its native lakes,
particularly the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis
niloticus). Conservation actions taken include
the transfer of thousands of sinarapan to safer
lakes where they might reproduce effectively.
The transport of the fish was difficult because
it is very delicate, and well over half of each
load died during the process. By 2001 there
was evidence of successful reproduction in the
new habitat.

10. Biya

11. Oxyurichthys mirolepis, th maned goby,
is a species of goby native to tropical
marine and brackish waters along the
coast of the indian ocean from the Africa
to the western Pacific ocean where it
occurs estuaries and inshore waters to
depths of about 75meters(246ft.)

12. Bagong Lipunan

13. Hypseleotris agilis is an endemic species
of fish from Lake Mai-init, Surigao del
Norte, and introduce to Lake Lanao of
Lanao del Sur .sometime in the 1960s.
The principal objective of this study is to
describe the variations in morphology of
the species as well as determine its
sexually dimorphic traits, using landmark-based
geometric morphometrics.

14. A total of 55 (25 females and 30 males)
specimens were analyzed. Twenty
landmark points were digitized from
which relative warp score were derived.

15. Tamanka

16. Tamanka siitensis is a species of fish in
the goby family, Gobiidae, and the only
member of the monotypic
genus Tamanka. It is endemic to Jolo
Island in the Sulu Archipelago of
the Philippines. It is a freshwater fish that
can be found in lakes near the coast. This
species grows to a length of 6.5
centimetres (2.6 in)

17. Butanding

18. The whale shark is a slow moving filter
feeding shark an the largest known extant
fish species.The largest confirmed
individual length of 12.65m.The whale
shark is found in tropical and warm ocean
and lives in the open sea with a life span
of about 70 years.

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