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Allometric relationships of the clam Marcia opima (Gmelin, 1791), collected from two longitudinally separated areas

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Title Allometric relationships of the clam Marcia opima (Gmelin, 1791), collected
from two longitudinally separated areas
 
Creator Suja, N
Muthiah, P
 
Subject Molluscan Fisheries
 
Description The relationship between various morphological attributes such as shell-on weight, length, width, height, wet meat weight
and dry meat weight of the baby clam, Marcia opima was studied from two longitudinally separated localities viz., Tuticorin
Bay along the south-east coast and Ashtamudi Lake along the south-west coast of India. Using the equation, W= aLb, the
relationship between length and shell-on weight was established. The relation between a part and the whole body or between
parts of a growing animal is described by the general equation Y= a+bX. The slope values of the length - weight relationship
of the baby clam followed the cube law. It was also observed that true allometric relationships exist between weights and
linear measurements. The values of correlation coefficient for different morphological relationships were very close to unity.
Length is found to be the most useful parameter to predict other biomass parameters from field study.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 2008
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/112/1/ijf55%283%29Suja.pdf
Suja, N and Muthiah, P (2008) Allometric relationships of the clam Marcia opima (Gmelin, 1791), collected from two longitudinally separated areas. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 55 (3). pp. 281-283.