The inland northern part of the Karnataka State abounds in varieties of freshwater bodies such as rivers, lakes, reservoirs, nerennial and seasonal ponds, stagnant pools etc and contributes to a subsistence level freshwater prawn fishery locally. However, practically no information was available on these prawns. As such, the present work on the freshwater prawns was undertaken. The study is based mainly on the material collected in and around Dharwad (Dharwad ...
