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Differences in the food and feeding adaptations between juveniles and adults of the Indian oil sardine, Sardinella longiceps Valenciennes

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Title Differences in the food and feeding adaptations
between juveniles and adults of the Indian oil
sardine, Sardinella longiceps Valenciennes
 
Creator Bensam, P
 
Subject Oil sardine
Food and Feeding
 
Description The food and feeding habits of Sardinella longiceps, economically the most
valuable clupeiform fish from Indian waters, had been the subject of study for
the past five decades (Hornell, 1910; Homell and Nayudu, 1924; Devanesan, 1943;
Chidarbaram, 1950; Nair, 1963; Nair and Subrahmanyan, 1955; Venkataraman,
1960; Dhulkhed, 1962). Although a general idea of the elements on which the
oil sardine subsists is worked out, data published on the food-habits of the
different stages in its life-span is scanty and doubtful. Chidambaram (1950)
opines that the food of young and adult sardines does not differ much.
Reference that "immature adults and spawners" feed "mostly on phytoplankton"
and "very young sardines" feed mainly on copepods has been made by Nair
(1953). Comprehensive study of the differences in the food and feeding habits
has not been made by previous workers. Hence the present report on the differences
observed in the food and feeding adaptations between juveniles and adults
of S. longiceps while studying its biology at Cannanore (south-west coast of
India) may be of interest.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1964
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2163/1/Article_24.pdf
Bensam, P (1964) Differences in the food and feeding adaptations between juveniles and adults of the Indian oil sardine, Sardinella longiceps Valenciennes. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 11A (1). pp. 377-390.