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The morphology of the alimentary tract in relation to food of platycephalids of Porto Novo Coast (Order: Scorpaeniformes)

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Title The morphology of the alimentary tract in relation to food of platycephalids of Porto Novo Coast (Order: Scorpaeniformes)
 
Creator Sivakumar, R
Ramaiyan, V
 
Subject Biochemical Study
 
Description The interrelationships between the morphology of the alimentary tract and the food and feeding
habits in five species of flat heads (Order : Scorpaeniformes) of the family platycephalidae were
studied The nature of teeth, gill rakers and the presence or absence of pyloric appendices were
noted Based on the shape and relative lengths of different parts of the alimentary tract and the
types of food concerned the fishes ware grouped into, ( I I fish feeders and (2) Crustacean feeders.
Qualitative analysis of the food of the five species of flat heads viz- (1) Platycephalus indiCUS,
(2) Sorsogona tuberculata, (3) Thysanophrys carbunculus, (4) Grammoph'tes scaber and
(6) Suggrundus rodericensis was also made and the results are discussed.
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Date 1987
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2916/1/Article_34.pdf
Sivakumar, R and Ramaiyan, V (1987) The morphology of the alimentary tract in relation to food of platycephalids of Porto Novo Coast (Order: Scorpaeniformes). CMFRI Bulletin National Symposium on Research and Development in Marine Fisheries Sessions I & II 1987, 44 (1). pp. 262-266.