The floodplains of West Bengal, India are mostly fertile grazing lands which gets flooded with water when the adjacent water bodies are filled with rain water.
During the months of monsoon in India, most of the bulbs of Nymphaea varieties starts to sprout on the lands filled in fresh rain water, which cannot be seen on rest of the year. Also a person with keen eye and interest can notice the transformation of aquatic plants, from emerged to submerged. This beautiful transformations can mostly be seen on Sagittaria guayanensis and Eriocaulon breviscapum along with Eriocaulon parviflorum. From June to October this lands flourish exponentially, dries up from late October and silently waits for next years Monsoon.
Also during this period most of the native fishes like Pethia phutunio, Pethia aurea, Chanda ranga, Badis badis, Macrognathus pancalus, Aplocheilus lineatus, Channa striata, Channa gachua, Esomus danricus, Brachygobius nunus, Oryzias dancena etc. breeds along with shrimps.
- GPS
- 22.5749454, 88.3605652
- Geographical region
- Southern Asia
- Drainage Basin
- Ganges River basin
- River catchment
- Hooghly iver
- Water body type
- Pond
- Water body name
- Monsoon Marshes
- Water body part
- Marsh land
- Water body course
- Water body: tributary of
- Tributary name
