QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE GUT CONTENT ANALYSIS OF MACROBRACHIUM ASSAMENSE PENINSULARE FROM RAWASAN STREAM OF GARHWAL HIMALAYA, UTTARAKHAND, INDIA.
- Department of Zoology, Campus Pauri, H.N.B Garhwal (A Central University) Uttarakhand India-246001.
- Department of Zoology, Govt. P.G. (Autonomous) College Rishikesh, Uttarakhand India-249202.
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Food is an essential for any organism, for growth, reproduction and culture aspects. Study on food and feeding of Macrobrachium assamense peninsulare has been carried out by quantitative and qualitative gut content analysis methods. Prawns were collected monthly from August 2013 to July 2015 and analyses of stomach contact were made to know the natural food of these prawns. From the overall analysis it has been reported that these prawns are omnivorous in nature and generally eat up the microscopic food, either animal or plant matters. Food consists of fragments of aquatic plants, algae, animal matter, diatoms, sand grains and highest percentage of amorphous mass. Results indicate that the adults are mostly predators of benthic invertebrates rather than detritus feeders/scavengers.
[Koshal Kumar, C. B. Kotnala and Anita Rawat Rana. (2016); QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE GUT CONTENT ANALYSIS OF MACROBRACHIUM ASSAMENSE PENINSULARE FROM RAWASAN STREAM OF GARHWAL HIMALAYA, UTTARAKHAND, INDIA. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 4 (Dec). 786-791] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
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