Food and feeding habits of snow trout, Schizothorax plagiostomus in River Lidder, from Kashmir Himalaya
Journal Title: Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences Sec. A-Zoology - Year 2018, Vol 37, Issue 1
Abstract
The food and feeding habits of Schizothorax plagiostomus in river Lidder was studied by examining 500 guts collected throughout the year. The fish samples used in the present study was within the range of 25.5cm to 40.33cm in total length and weight ranging from 250g to 580g in weight and the sampling duration was from July, 2013 to June, 2014. During the analysis of food and feeding habits of S. plagiostomus it was concluded that the fish is benthic herbivorous. Its food mainly consists of plant matter 62.02%. A good amount of miscellaneous food items i.e. mud, sand and detritus 31.01% was also present in the gut of fish along with small quantity of animal food 6.97%. Overall it was concluded that diatoms formed an important constituent of food of S. plagiostomus in all months of the year and the presence of detritus, mud and sand indicates that the fish is a detrivorous, bottom feeder. The gastrosomatic index in case of females ranged from 3.88±0.30 to 7.30±2.128 with minimum in July and maximum GaSI in October and 3.37±0.75 to 7.82±2.22 in males with minimum in July and maximum in December.
Authors and Affiliations
Imtiaz Ahmed
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP512370
- DOI 10.5958/2320-3188.2018.00001.3
- Views 203
- Downloads 0
Biology of Callosobruchus chinensis during infestation in two varieties of Arhar under laboratory conditions
Callosobruchus chinensis, is a destructive pest of large variety of pulse grains like arhar, gram moong and kabuli chana. Pulses are important source of dietary protein for vegetarian. These are also good sources of mi...
The Food Consumption, Utilization and Life History Traits of some Endemic & Endangered Butterflies in the Eastern Ghats - Southern Andhra Pradesh
Life history parameters such as pattern of egg laying, hatching, larval &pupal period and the total period from egg to emerge adult of 11 butterfly species distributed at Seshachalam Bio-reserve forest, Thalakona, “Sri L...
Hydrosere Succession Model of Marshy Wetland Mediated Nesting Behavior of Sarus Crane, Grus antigone antigone (Aves: Guridae)
The hydrosere succession is not a new to ecology, but succession mediated by sarus crane, Grus antigone antigone (Aves: Guridae) nesting was observed earlier than natural wetland succession. The sarus crane nest is weird...
Food and feeding habits of snow trout, Schizothorax plagiostomus in River Lidder, from Kashmir Himalaya
The food and feeding habits of Schizothorax plagiostomus in river Lidder was studied by examining 500 guts collected throughout the year. The fish samples used in the present study was within the range of 25.5cm to 40.33...
A Study on Recent Trends in Therapy of Air Borne Communicable Disease Caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis: The Tuberculosis
The tuberculosis (TB) caused by a bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a transmissible air borne disease. The primary infection as latent TB becomes active when the bacteria enormously multiplied in lungs. The active...