Food and feeding habit of Barbus belayewi (Menon) from Diyala river, Baghdad, Iraq

Food and feeding habits of fishes have a great significance in aquaculture practices. It helps to select such species of fishes for culture which will utilize all the available potential food of the water bodies without much competition with one another but will live in association with other fishes. This paper deals with the feeding intensity and food habits of L. bata . Food and feeding habit of freshwater minor carp Labeo bata (120 to 250 mm total length) were studied. The fish is a herbivore, feeding mainly on algae (22.32 %), higher plant parts (31.26 %), protozoans (7.42 %), crustaceans (15.33 %), insects (3.56 %), muds, sand, debris and detritus (16.32 %) and unidentified food materials (3.99%).Journal of Science Foundation, 2014;12(1):7-15

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Studies on the Food and Feeding Habits of Swamp Deer (Rucervus duvaucelii duvaucelii) in Jhilmil Jheel Conservation Reserve, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India

ISRN Zoology ◽

10.1155/2013/278213 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2013 ◽

pp. 1-6 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

R. Tewari ◽

G. S. Rawat

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Food Habits ◽

Ecological Study ◽

Feeding Habits ◽

Feeding Habit ◽

Major Objective ◽

Quadrat Method ◽

Food And Feeding ◽

Swamp Deer ◽

Land Use Practices

Food habits of the swamp deer (Rucervus duvaucelii duvaucelii) were studied in and around Jhilmil Jheel Conservation Reserve (JJCR), Uttarakhand, for two years. This population (320 in number) was recently rediscovered in the state (2005) and warranted an ecological study because the habitat around this study area is heavily fragmented due to expansion of agriculture, habitation, and various other land use practices. Therefore, this study was initiated by the major objective of studying seasonal variation in food habits of swamp deer. Proportionate food consumption was studied using feeding quadrat method. The study reveals that the overall diet of swamp deer consisted mainly of graminoids (grasses and sedges) and herbs (terrestrial and aquatic). In the protected areas studied earlier, the swamp deer habitat was dominated by grasses, and hence they were reported to be predominantly a grazer who occasionally fed on aquatic plants (Schaller 1967 and others). In contrast, at Jhilmil, the area also has equal presence of other plant types namely, sedges and terrestrial herbs. This resulted in polyphagous feeding habit of animal here.

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Food and feeding habit of Auchenoglanis occidentalis (Vallenciennce, 1840) in Zaria, Nigeria

Zoologist (The) ◽

10.4314/tzool.v7i1.52092 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

H.U Onimisi ◽

S.J Oniye ◽

J.K Balogun ◽

T Aken'Ova

Keyword(s):

Feeding Habit ◽

Food And Feeding

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A contribution to the food and feeding habit of the threadfin Galeoides decadactylus

Marine Biology ◽

10.1007/bf00391397 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 22 (4) ◽

pp. 371-378 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

A. D. Onyia

Keyword(s):

Feeding Habit ◽

Food And Feeding

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Food and Feeding Habit of Reba Carp Cirrhinus reba in the Padma River, Northwestern Bangladesh

Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science ◽

10.3923/jfas.2019.1.6 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 1-6 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Md. Abu Sayed Jewe ◽

Md. Ayenuddin ◽

Mst. Shahanaj F ◽

Mst. Samsad Kha ◽

Jakia Hasan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Feeding Habit ◽

Food And Feeding ◽

Northwestern Bangladesh ◽

Padma River

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Food and feeding habits of the exotic fish Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters, 1852) from a tropical reservoir of Chalakudy River, Kerala

Indian Journal of Fisheries ◽

10.21077/ijf.2016.63.4.56096-21 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 63 (4) ◽

Author(s):

K. Roshni ◽

C. R. Renjithkumar ◽

B. Madhusoodana Kurup

Keyword(s):

Diet Composition ◽

Feeding Habits ◽

Oreochromis Mossambicus ◽

Feeding Habit ◽

Gut Content Analysis ◽

Gut Content ◽

Tropical Reservoir ◽

Exotic Fish ◽

Plant Matter ◽

Food And Feeding

The diet composition of the exotic fish, Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters, 1852) was studied in Poringalkuthu Reservoir, Kerala from June 2011 to May 2012. O. mossambicus (2.52 t) forms a regular fishery which indicate that the fish has been established successfully in the reservoir. Gut content analysis revealed detritus to be the dominant food item followed by chlorophyceae, cyanophyceae, bacillariophyceae, zooplankton, plant matter, sand particles, fish parts, insects and miscellaneous items. The present study shows that the species is an omnivore, with a euryphagous feeding habit.

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