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Food and feeding habits of the common guitarfish, Rhinobatos rhinobatos in the Egyptian Mediterranean waters

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Title Food and feeding habits of the common guitarfish, Rhinobatos rhinobatos in the Egyptian Mediterranean waters
 
Creator Abdel-Aziz, S H
Khalil, A N
Abdel-Maguid, S A
 
Description 287-290
Stomach contents of 233 male and female common guitarfish Rhinobatos rhinobatos (27 to 180 cm TL) consisted of crustacea, fish, cephalopods and annelids in that order of preference. In small guitarfish, caridean shrimps were the most frequently occurring food items, diversity of stomach contents increasing with size, with fish and brachyuran crabs occurring most frequently in the largest fish. No important seasonal variations in type of food was noticed. Feeding intensity in adults was reduced in summer (June, July and August) the period of gestation and parturition.
 
Date 2016-11-30T11:41:16Z
2016-11-30T11:41:16Z
1993-12
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/37931
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.22(4) [December 1993]