<![CDATA[ABSTRACTThe Biodiversity of Fish In Squaq Balimbing and Ketambe Gunung Leuser NationalPark, Sumatera. Gunung Leuser National Park (GLNP) is one of the biggest national park inIndonesia which is the habitat of various flora-fauna. GLNP is a conservation area inSumatera island that lies in the two province, North Sumatera Province and Nanggroe AcehDarussalam Province. Little has reported about fishes inhabiting inland waters of Acehprovince and Sumatera Utara province, because The Fisheries Service of both province andThe University of Syah Kuala and The University of Sumatera Utara are more interested inconducting research on marine fish.Ichthyofauna research was conducted at the two Research Stations of Gunung LeuserNational Park, i.e Suaq Balimbing and Ketambe Research Station. Research activity at Suaq- Balimbing RS which is located in South Aceh Regency was conducted in 1997, whileresearch activity in Ketambe RS which is located in South East Aceh Regency was conductedin 1998. The research activity successfully collected 64 fish species which is belong to 36familia. There were two endemik species, one of them was protected species, six species wereundescribe ones and has described as new species, besides of those there are several specieswhich are assummed as undescribe species and still being examined.Keywords : Fish, biodiversity, Gunung Leuser National Park, endemic, protected, newspecies]]>
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