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Food and feeding of Portunus (Portunus) sanguinolentus (Herbst) and Portunus (Portunus) pelagicus (Linnaeus) (Brachyura: Portunidae) along Karnataka coast

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Title Food and feeding of Portunus (Portunus) sanguinolentus (Herbst) and Portunus (Portunus) pelagicus (Linnaeus) (Brachyura: Portunidae) along Karnataka coast
 
Creator Sukumaran, K K
Neelakantan, B
 
Subject Crustacean Fisheries
Food and Feeding
 
Description The diet of Portunus (Portunus) sanguinolentus and P.(P.) pelagicus Jmlin1y consisted of crustacean
Fishes, molluscs, large quantity of unidentified matter and debris. Quantitative analysis of the gut contents
revealed that crustaceans contributed to 47.1% and 42.6 %, fish remains 29.0 % and 20.4 %. molluscs
5.7% and 20.0 % detritus 4.9 % and 4.7 % respectively of the gut content by volume in both species
respectively. The study indicated that these crabs are primarily predators of sessile and slow moving benthic macro invertebrates.
 
Date 1997
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/8253/1/I_J_M_S_vol_26%281_4%29.pdf
Sukumaran, K K and Neelakantan, B (1997) Food and feeding of Portunus (Portunus) sanguinolentus (Herbst) and Portunus (Portunus) pelagicus (Linnaeus) (Brachyura: Portunidae) along Karnataka coast. Indian Journal of Marine Sciences, 26 (1). pp. 35-38.