Multiple varieties of fish are one of the major attractions for which Sikkim is popular among ichthyologists, says PK Ghosh The Lepchas have named Sikkim as Nye-mae-el. The land provides tourists with a panorama of pleasant surprises. The state, bounded by Bhutan and West Bengal on the east, Nepal on the west, West Bengal on the south, and Tibet on the north, has a population of 5,50,000. Sikkim is blessed with beautiful and luxuriant natural resources both fauna and flora from water and jungle. Among all these fishes have been well documented for 150 years by the authors/taxonomists namely McClelland (1845) who had described three local species of fishes. Similarly, other ichthyologists like Gunther (1868), Day (1878), Hora (1923), Raj Tilak (1972), and Puspa Tamang (1992) of recent time have described and reported 48 species of fish from this Himalayan region. There is a variety of fishes found in the Himalayan belt that have encouraged many ichthyologists over the years to extend ...
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