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Life-history and feeding habits of the spotted seer Scomberomorus guttatus (Block & Schneider)

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Title Life-history and feeding habits of the
spotted seer Scomberomorus guttatus
(Block & Schneider)
 
Creator Vijayaraghavan, P
 
Subject Seerfishes
Food and Feeding
 
Description The available information relating to marine fish eggs and larvae of Madras
is covered by the accounts given by John (1951) and Nair (1952 a •+ b). In
the present paper, which deals with part of the results of the investigation
undertaken by the author at the Zoological Research Laboratory, University
of Madras, for three years (1950-53), on fish eggs and larvae occurring
in Madras plankton, the methods of collection, of hatching of the eggs and
of rearing the larvae in general are given, together with observations on the
life-history of Scomberomorus guttdtus vidth its food and feeding habits.
Our knowledge of the life history of this fish is confined to Delsman's
(1931) description of its eggs and larvae reared up to the third day.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1955
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2352/1/Article_07.pdf
Vijayaraghavan, P (1955) Life-history and feeding habits of the spotted seer Scomberomorus guttatus (Block & Schneider). Indian Journal of Fisheries, 2 (2). pp. 360-372.