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Food and feeding habits of the short-jaw anchovy, Thrissina baelama (Forskal), of the Andaman sea

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Title Food and feeding habits of the short-jaw anchovy,
Thrissina baelama (Forskal), of the Andaman sea
 
Creator Marichamy, R
 
Subject Food and Feeding
Anchoves
 
Description Like many other anchovies T. baelama feeds mostly on large zooplanktonic
organisms. Euphausiids were the most important item of food supplemented
by copepods, megalopae, prawns and amphipods. These major items in
the diet of the fish did not differ significantly from year to year although the
relative importance of particular item may vary slightly between diflferent months.
The smaller fish appeared to prefer smaller organisms like veligers, zoeae,
Oithona, Pseudodiaptomus etc. while the adults preferred euphausiids, megalopae,
prawns, amphipods and fish larvae.
The variations in the composition of the gut contents and feeding intensity
are discussed in relation to environmental biota, size-groups and maturity
of the fish.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1972
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1287/1/Article_06.pdf
Marichamy, R (1972) Food and feeding habits of the short-jaw anchovy, Thrissina baelama (Forskal), of the Andaman sea. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 19 (1&2). pp. 54-59.