We express our gratitude to Dr. P Das, Dr. AG Ponniah, Late Dr. D Kapoor, Dr. WS Lakra, Former Directors, ICAR-NBFGR; Dr. George John, Former Advisor, DBT, New Delhi; Dr. A Gopalakrishnan, Director, ICAR-CMFRI, Kochi, for their guidance and support in development of the database.

We are highly thankful to Dr. Naresh S Nagpure, Principal Scientist, ICAR-CIFE, Mumbai and former CPI of NABG and CABin projects, ICAR-NBFGR, for his contribution in developing and updating this database.

We are also thankful to the publishers, editors and the authors for generously granting us permission to use the cytogenetic information on fishes from various research articles.

We also acknowledge the efforts made by Dr. LB Singh, Dr. OP Pandey, Dr. A Barat, Dr. PK Sahoo, Dr. P Punia, Mrs. PJ Singh, Dr. Satish K Srivastava and Dr. VS Basheer towards development of this database.