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Meiobenthic fauna of the traditional prawn culture systems around Cochin

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Title Meiobenthic fauna of the traditional prawn culture systems around Cochin
 
Creator Preetha, K
Pillai, N G K
 
Subject Mariculture
Aquaculture
Prawn and Prawn fisheries
 
Description The distribution and abundance of meiobenthos, hydrography and sediment characteristics of three different types of traiditonal prawn culture systems around Cochin were studied for a period of two years (1988-1990). Nematodes were the most dominant group (79.6%) of the total meiofaunal count followed by harpacticoids and polychaetes. Others like oligochaetes, bivalves, ostracods, amphipods and tanaids had only stray occurrences and together formed a meagre 0.30% of the total. The upper 0-5 cm layer harboured 79.5% of the meiofaunal population. The perennial ponds had the highest abundance of meiobenthos (69.9%) followed by canals (17.9%) and seasonal fields (12.2%): The meiobenthic biomass ranged from 0.84 mg/ 10 cm2 to 5.7 mg/lO cm2in different stations. Meiofauna did not show a significant positive correlation with the different environmental parameters. However, during the southwest
monsoon period, the population showed a sharp decline. Meiobenthos were found to be abundant at stations where the sand content varied from 60-7870 and silt from 15-29%, and were lowest at stations with high clay content. High content organic carbon also did not favour a high abundance of meiofauna. The presence of nematodes(80%) in the gut content of the prawns indicates a trophic chain involving meibenthos.
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 2000
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1955/1/Preetha_39-46.pdf
Preetha, K and Pillai, N G K (2000) Meiobenthic fauna of the traditional prawn culture systems around Cochin. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 42 (1 & 2). pp. 39-46.