Food habits and feeding intensity of finlet scad <i>Atule mate </i>(Teleostei) <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">off Gulf of Mannar, southeast coast of India</span>
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Food habits and feeding intensity of finlet scad Atule mate (Teleostei) off Gulf of Mannar, southeast coast of India
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Creator |
Kingston, S.David
Venkataramani, V.K. Venkataramanujam, K. |
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Description |
307-311
Atule mate exhibits two types of feeding patterns, the juveniles feeding mainly on crustaceans and the adults exclusively on fishes. Low intensity of feeding was observed in juveniles, males and females. Juveniles had high diet breadth (2.86) when compared to the males (1.86) and females (2.10). The overlap studies showed clustering of high overlaps in the younger and older length groups. The dendrogram of the diet at various length groups showed two principal clusters, one at 91-150 mm (TL) length group and another at 151-280 mm (TL) length group. As per the cluster analysis two types of food patterns are evident in this species. |
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2014-01-13T05:55:15Z
2014-01-13T05:55:15Z 1999-09 |
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Article
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0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/25534 |
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en_US
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Rights |
CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
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NISCAIR-CSIR, India
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Source |
IJMS Vol.28(3) [September 1999]
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