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Food intake, conversion and swimming activity in the air-breathing catfish Heteropneustes fossilis

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Title Food intake, conversion and swimming activity in the air-breathing catfish Heteropneustes fossilis
 
Creator Arunachalam, S
Vivekanandan, E
Pandian, T J
 
Subject Catfish
Food Chemistry
Food and Feeding
 
Description Pandian & Vivekanandan (1976) and Vivekanandan
([976), who considered feeding rate and conversion efficiency
estimates as parameters for assessing metabolic
rates and efficiencies. observed that the obligatory airbreathing
fish Opiliocepha/us slriatus, reared in aquaria
containing different depths of water, swam longer or shorter
distance to exhange atmospheric air; such a design of
experiment permitted them to measure food intake.
growth and sustained active metabolism on a long term
basis.
 
Date 1976
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/7261/1/256-HYDROBIOLOGIA_1977.pdf
Arunachalam, S and Vivekanandan, E and Pandian, T J (1976) Food intake, conversion and swimming activity in the air-breathing catfish Heteropneustes fossilis. Hydrobiologia, 51 (3). pp. 213-217.