author(s)
Hari Om Verma, Krishna Gopal, Suyash Tripathi and Abhay Singh

abstract
The ichthyofaunal study was conducted on the seasonal basis from October 2014 to November 2015 in relation to water quality of Bakhira Lake. The study exposed that physicochemical parameters of Bakhira Lake were agreeable for 45 commercially importance fish species, belonging to 7 orders, 17 families, and 32 genera. The Cypriniformes were dominant with 18 species, followed by Siluriformes (12), Perciformes (9), Clupeiformes (3), Osteoglossiformes, Mugiliformes and Synbranchiformes each with 1 species. About their conservation condition, 38 species were least concern, 1species was vulnerable, 3 species were near threatened and 3 species was data deficient. The water quality parameters such as temperature, pH, alkalinity, hardness, dissolved oxygen, ammonia, nitrate, nitrite and phosphate were recorded and found to be good for aqua life.