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List of fishes of Bangladesh

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List of fishes of Bangladesh
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Bangladesh is a country with thousands of rivers and ponds, and is notable as a fish-loving nation, acquiring the name machh-e bhat-e Bangali (which means, "Bengali by fish and rice").[1][2][3]

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A fish market in Sylhet

Ilish is the national fish of the country, and contributes 13% of country's total fish production. Fish are both caught from the wild and farmed in artificial ponds.

Fishes of Bangladesh

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Bengali also has a generic term for three related fish species from the family Polynemidae. A lakkha fish (লাক্ষা মাছ) may be Eleutheronema tetradactylum, Leptomelanosoma indicum or Polydactylus sexfilis.[4] Another example is that of tengra (টেংরা) which is used to denote several species of catfishes from the families Mystus and Batasio.[5][6][a]

Bengali has multiple synonyms for a single species and a single word for multiple species (a generic term) as shown in the list below.[7]

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