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Studies on the food and feeding relationships of the halfbeak fishes (Hemirhamphidae) from the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay

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Title Studies on the food and feeding
relationships of the halfbeak fishes
(Hemirhamphidae) from the Gulf of
Mannar and Palk Bay
 
Creator Talwar, P K
 
Subject Fish biology
 
Description As a part of the investigations of the biology of the hemirhamphids in the
Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay from 1957-59, the contents of 2221 guts
belonging to four species, viz., Hyporhamphus georgii (C.V.), H. quoyi (C.V.),
Hemirhamphus marginatus (Forsk.) and H. far (Forsk.) were examined. No
detailed information on the food and feeding habits of the half beaks is available
and the accounts given by Schlesinger (1909), Uchida (1930), Smith
(1933), Devanesan (1933), Graham (1938), Suyehiro (1942), Gnanamuthu
(1943), Chacko (1949), Tham Ah Kow (1950), Thompson (1957 and 1959),
Vijayaraghavan (1957) and Kuthalingam (1958) relate mainly to observations
confined to limited periods in a year and do not give a picture of the
variations of the seasonal composition of the gut contents. The present study
deals with the seasonal composition of the food items of four species of halfbeaks
and its relation to the environmental biota and their stages of sexual
maturity.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1962
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1985/1/Article_03.pdf
Talwar, P K (1962) Studies on the food and feeding relationships of the halfbeak fishes (Hemirhamphidae) from the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 9A (1). pp. 1-9.