Environmental Assessment
Volume C-4.3
Slurry Pipeline
Fish and Aquatic Resources
Ambatovy Project
123
January 2006
Table 4.3-3 Aquatic Invertebrate Taxa Recorded at the Slurry Pipeline Local
Study Area During the 2004-2005 Survey
Order
Family
Order
Family
COLEOPTERA
Carabidae
HEMIPTERA
Aphelocheiridae
Dysticidae
Belastomatidae
Elmidae
Corixidae
Gyrinidae
Gerridae
Helophoridae
Helodidae
Hydrophilidae
Hydrometridae
Scarabaeidae
Mesoveliidae
DECAPODA
Atyidae
Naucoridae
Palaemonidae
Nepidae
Potamonautidae
Notonectidae
DIPTERA
Athericidae
Pleidae
Chironomidae
Reduvidae
Dixidae
Veliidae
Empididae
LEPIDOPTERA
Pyralidae
Simuliidae
MEGALOPTERA
Sialidae
Tipulidae
ODONATA
Aeshnidae
EPHEMEROPTERA Baetidae
Coenagrionidae
Caenidae
Cordulegasteridae
Ephemeridae
Corduliidae
Heptagenidae
Gomphidae
Leptophlebidae
Lestidae
Oligoneuridae
Libellulidae
Polymitarcidae
OLIGOCHAETA
Enchytraeidae
Prosopistomatidae
PLECOPTERA
Notonemouridae
Teloganodidae
TRICHOPTERA
Beraeidae
Tricorythidae
Ecnomidae
GASTEROPODA
(a)
Bithyniidae
Glossosomatidae
Bythinellidae
Hydropsychidae
Hydrobiidae
Lepidostomatidae
Lymnaeidae
Leptoceridae
Planorbidae
Polycentropodidae
Thiaridae
Psychomyiidae
Sericostomatidae
MERMITHOIDAE
Mermithidae
(a)
Gasteropoda is a Class.
Endemic and Native Species
Fish
The fish fauna within the pipeline LSA sample contains eight endemic species,
consisting of two bedotids,
B. madagascariensis
and
R. alaotrensis
; two
eleotrids,
Ophiocara macrolepidota
and
R. legendrei
; and one each of the
ambasid,
Ambassys fontoynonti
; kuhlid,
Kuhlia sauvagii
; cichlid,
Paretroplus
