The identified species are listed against the concerned
families along with their habitat, economic importance,
distribution within north east India and other parts.
Conservation status, as discussed earlier, and threats are
shown in Table 1. A total of 422 species belonging to 39
families have been identified (Table 1). Altogether, 35
references were consulted in documenting the list as
shown below. In Table 1, the list of fish with their families,
habit, habitat, economic importance, distribution, present
status and threats are shown. The food habits, habitat
and specific ecological niche such as demersal, pelagic
and bentho-pelagic and pelagic-neritic status are shown
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along with food habits and habitat.