~ 796 ~ Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 2019; 7(2): 796-800 E-ISSN: 2320-7078 P-ISSN: 2349-6800 JEZS 2019; 7(2): 796-800 © 2019 JEZS Received: 11-01-2019 Accepted: 15-02-2019 Tahir Azeem Department of Zoology, Kohat University of Science & Technology, KUST, KP, Pakistan Wahab Ud Din Department of Zoology, Government Post Graduate College, Kohat, KP, Pakistan Asmatullah Department of Zoology, Government Post Graduate College, Kohat, KP, Pakistan Feroz Khan Department of Zoology and Biology, PirMehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan Hameed Ur Rehman Department of Zoology, Kohat University of Science & Technology, KUST, KP, Pakistan Sumbal Naseem Department of Zoology, Kohat University of Science & Technology, KUST, KP, Pakistan Syed Sikandar Habib Department of Biological Sciences, UOS-Mianwali Campus, Pakistan Correspondence Hameed Ur Rehman Department of Zoology, Kohat University of Science & Technology, KUST, KP, Pakistan Ichthyodiversity of Bahawal Garh River, district Kohat Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan Tahir Azeem, Wahab Ud Din, Asmatullah, Feroz Khan, Hameed Ur Rehman, Sumbal Naseem and Syed Sikandar Habib Abstract Fishes are the aquatic cold blooded animals, respire by gills, swimming by fins and body is covered by scales. The current study was conducted with the main aim to investigate the fish biodiversity of Bahawal Garhriver in district Kohat. Present survey was conducted from October 2017 to March 2018 and total of 06 species belonging 06 genera, 05 families and 05 orders with a total catch of about 70 specimens were collected from Bahawal Garh river district Kohat. The cyprinidae family was most abundant represented by 03 species, belonidae, sisoridae and mastacembelidae were represented by 01 species. The percentile values of Pethiaconchonius, Labeodyocheiluspakistanicus, Ctenopharyngodon idella, Xenentodon Cancila, Glyptothorax cavia and Mastacembelus armatus were 30%, 15%, 30%, 07%, 22% and 26% respectively. The fingerlings of new fish species should be introduced in the river and to enhance the fish production in the region to provide cheap and best quality proteins to the people of the area. Keywords: ichthyodiversity, Bahawal Garh River, district Kohat Introduction Kohat district is located on the north by Peshawar and Now shera districts, on the east by Attock, on the south by Mianwali of the Punjab province and Karak district and on the west by Hangu district and Orakzai agency. The total area of the district Kohatis about 2545 km. In Kohat, various dams such as Tanda dam, Gandiali dam, Darmalak dam, Darwazai dam, Chanda Fateh Khan dam, Kandar dam and rivers such as Bahawal Garh river, Sheen Dand and Bado Ziarat Dand and lakes such as like Shahida Banda and Jauzara lake are found [1] . Biodiversity is significant for maintenance of ecology and guard of overall ecological quality for understanding the essential work of all species on the ground. Biodiversity is most generally used to replace the more obviously defined and long recognized terms, diversity and species abundance. Biologists may explain as the sum of genes, species and ecology of the area [2-3] . Biodiversity is not regularly dispersed, but it varies significantly across the world as well as within areas. Among other features, the variety of all living things (biota) depend on temperature, rainfall, height, soil, topography and the presence of other species. The study of the three-dimensional dispersal of the organism, species and ecology is the science of biogeography. Diversity steadily trials higher in the tropics and in other local areas [4-5] . Fish show the highest biodiversity of the vertebrates (animals with backbones) with over 22,000 species. Of which 58 percent are marine species, 41 percent are fresh water and 1 percent are between salt and freshwater. As predictable, marine fishes are the most different because saltwater covers 70 percent of the ground. Only 1 percent of the ground is covered by freshwater. This small region is household for 8,000 fish species of freshwater [6-7] . Maximum of the fish species of the fresh water have precise common dispersal [8-9] . Due to this common dispersion and human actions, as a result the fish fauna of fresh water are under simple pressure around the earth [9] . The common deliveries of the fresh water fishes are very different from the mammal and birds fauna [8] . Fish biodiversity, which have presented in new surroundings and itself adopted with food or they alter their food according to the surroundings where obtainability of food occur. Dams and reservoirs are the important incomes of water, which are enormously numerous in range and fisheries organization [10] . The current study was aimed to determine the fish biodiversity of Bahawal Garh river, district Kohat Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan.