Diversity and Community Composition of Fishes in the Pusu River (Gombak, Malaysia)

ABSTRACT Jalal, K.-C.-A.; Alifah, F.-K.; Faizul, H.-N.-N.; Mamun, A.-A.; Kader, M.-A., and Ashraf, M.-A., 2018. Diversity and community composition of fishes in Pusu River (Gombak, Malaysia). In: Ashraf, M.A. and Chowdhury, A.J.K. (eds.), Coastal Ecosystem Responses to Human and Climatic Changes throughout Asia. The Pusu River has been receiving increased pollution loads because of a significant amount of land-clearing activities for development projects. A total of 113 numbers of fishes belonging to six species under six families were recorded from Pusu River throughout the study period (November 2014–March 2015). The most dominant species were Barbonymus schwanenfeldii (38.9%) followed by Oreochromis mossambica (36.28%) under families Cyprinidae and Cichlidae, respectively. Similarly, the species Hypostomus plecostomus (10.62%), Channa striatus (6.19%), Notopterus notopterus (4.42%), Pristolepis fasciata (3.54%) under the family Loricariidae, Channidae, Notopteridae, and Pristolepididae were constituted...