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Technicaland human capacity: Availabilityof recent monographof freshwaterfish spe- cies:- Bhutan Localskill to identifyfreshwaterfish:Freshwatersites of exceptional biodiversityinterest: none A checklist of Afghanistan fishes was com- known piled by Goad (1981). 84 species are recorded Freshwaterbiodiversitv(speciesrecorded): from the country; 67 are known from a single river basin. No country-wide survey has ever been conducted, and virtually all the fish samples obtained to date have been chance collections by non-specialists.

Technicaland human capacity: Availabilityof recent monographof freshwaterfish spe- cies:- Bhutan Localskill to identifyfreshwaterfish:Freshwatersites of exceptional biodiversityinterest: none A checklist of Afghanistan fishes was com- known piled by Goad (1981). 84 species are recorded Freshwaterbiodiversitv(speciesrecorded): from the country; 67 are known from a single river basin. No country-wide survey has ever been conducted, and virtually all the fish samples obtained to date have been chance collections by non-specialists.

In many cases the fieldwork is conducted by associates, not by the researcher who writes the actual paper. As a re- suit, despite the many publications,the knowledge suit, despite the many publications, the knowledge of Indian fish fauna remains unsatisfactory. Contrary to many other Asian countries, the problem here is not the lack of data, but rather an abundance of uncritical compilations and users, resulting in inconsistency (see examples in Pethiyagoda and Kottelat, 1994 and Kottelat, 1990d).

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