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Burrowing habits in<b> </b>juveniles of marine prawn <i>Metapenaeus dobsoni</i> <span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN; mso-fareast-language:EN-IN;mso-bidi-language:HI" lang="EN-IN">(Crustacea: Decapoda)</span>

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Title Burrowing habits in juveniles of marine prawn Metapenaeus dobsoni (Crustacea: Decapoda)
 
Creator Subramaniam, V Thangaraj
 
Description 329-332
Juveniles of M.dobsoni revealed an intrinsic circadian rhythm,
burrowing to rest quietly in day and moving actively at night, and the schedule
of changing over the phase is sunrise and sunset. The intensity of light is the
prime factor stimul ating burrowi ng habit that the juveniles would burrow on
subjected to light in night and emerge to move actively under reduced light in
day. Several factors, such as, cloudiness, temperature, salinity and
availability of food interrupt burrowing. The critical temperature limits are
18-32°C and below 10°C is fatal. The juveniles measuring
 
Date 2014-01-13T05:15:15Z
2014-01-13T05:15:15Z
2000-12
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/25498
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.29(4) [December 2000]