author(s)
Ranga Ram Mohan, TS Nagesh, Anish Das, Saurabh Chandrakar, Shibam Saha, DRK Reddy and RR Anupama

abstract
The East Kolkata Wetlands, a Ramsar Site, nurtures the world’s largest wastewater fed aquaculture system. The present study was carried out from September 2016 to May 2017 to study piscine diversity of selected wetlands of East Kolkata. The fish fauna collected from East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW) consisted of 39 species belonging to 9 orders and 19 families, among the families encountered Cyprinidae dominated with 33% followed by Channidae (11%). Fish species were found to be both food and ornamental valued. Maximum fish species found in EKW were carnivores (53%), followed by omnivores (29%) and remaining (18%) were herbivores. Nine exotic species were recorded during the study period. Conservation status of fish species was ascertained as per IUCN Red list.