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Table 3.1. Field trials conducted to quantify the reduction in mosquito larval density achieved using different species of larvivorous fi sh in various ecological
settings. Studies are listed in chronological order according to the targeted mosquito genus and species, when provided. These are then arranged in
alphabetical order.
Mosquito
genus

Reduction in
larval density

Time post-fi sh
introduction Mosquito species Fish Study site Reference

Anopheles An . culicifacies s.l. Danio rerio and

Oryzias melastigma

Rourkella, Orissa, India, rice
fi elds

>99% 12 days Sharma and Ghosh, 1989; Yadav

and Das, 1994

An . arabiensis and An . gambiae
complex; An . culicifacies

Aphanius dispar Djibouti, Assab, Ethiopia, wells,

cisterns and barrels

97% 4 weeks Louis and Albert, 1988; Fletcher

et al. , 1992

An . stephensi Gujarat, India, wells, cisterns

and barrels

98% 3 weeks Haq and Yadav, 2011

An . coustani s.l., An . gambiae
s.l., An . funestus , An .
pharoensis and An .
squamosus

Tilapia guineensis and
Epiplatys
spilargyreius

Gambia River, Africa, fl oodplain 100% 1 day Louca et al. , 2009

An . freeborni and
An . pulcherrimus
An . stephensi
An . subpictus

Gambusia affi nis Iran, rice fi elds 99%, and 40%,

respectively
98%
96%

45 days Tabibzadeh et al. , 1971

Pondicherry, India, wells
Pondicherry, India, Casuarina
pits

4 weeks
20 months

Menon and Rajagopalan, 1978
Bheema Rao et al. , 1982

An . gambiae s.s. Poecilia reticulata Grande Comore Island,

washbasins
Gujarat, India, containers
Gujarat, India, wells

85% 1 year Sabatinelli et al. , 1991

An . stephensi and An . subpictus
An . stephensi

81-86%
77%

Not reported
Not reported

Gupta et al. , 1992
Rajnikant et al. , 1993

An . gambiae Oreochromis spilurus

spilurus

Kalabeydh village, northern
Somalia, reservoirs

53% 1 month Mohamed, 2003

An . gambiae and An . funestus Oreochromis niloticus

niloticus

Western Kenya, ponds 94% 15 weeks Howard et al. , 2007

An . sinensis Aplocheilus latipus and

Tilapia mossambicus
niloticus

Korea, rice fi elds 80-82% 5 weeks Yu and Lee, 1989