Volume : II, Issue : V, May - 2013

Food And Feeding Habit Of Amblypharyngodon mola (Hamilton – Buchanan, 1822) In West Bengal, India

Sandipan Gupta, Samir Banerjee

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To get success in culture of any fish species, detail knowledge on food and feeding habit of that particular fish species is really essential. Except the work of Piska et al. (1991) no such detail work till date has been performed on food and feeding habit of Amblypharyngodon mola in agro–climatic context of India. So the present study has been performed to get the information on the food and feeding habit of this fish species. Gastro–Somatic–Index, Relative Length of Gut, Gut Fullness & Feeding Intensity and Gut Content Analysis have been studied. Results have revealed Amblypharyngodon mola as herbivorous fish and phytoplankton as the basic food group for this fish species; chlorophyceae has been observed as the most preferable food class. Feeding activity has been observed to vary according to the eeding season; lowest and highest feeding activity has been observed during intense eeding season and pre–spawning months respectively

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Sandipan Gupta, Samir Banerjee Food And Feeding Habit Of mblypharyngodon mola (Hamilton‾Buchanan, 1822) In West Bengal, India International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.II, Issue.V May 2013

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