LIFE-HISTORY AND FEEDING HABITS OF THE SPOTTED SEER SCOMBEROMORUS GUTTATUS (BLOCK & SCHNEIDER)


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Authors

  • P Vijayaraghavan Zoological Research Laboratory, University of Madras

Abstract

THE available information relating to marine fish eggs and larvae of Madras
is covered by the accounts given by John (1951) and Nair (1952 a •+ b). In
the present paper, which deals with part of the results of the investigation
undertaken by the author at the Zoological Research Laboratory, University
of Madras, for three years (1950-53), on fish eggs and larvae occurring
in Madras plankton, the methods of collection, of hatching of the eggs and
of rearing the larvae in general are given, together with observations on the
life-history of Scomberomorus guttdtus vidth its food and feeding habits.
Our knowledge of the life history of this fish is confined to Delsman's
(1931) description of its eggs and larvae reared up to the third day

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Author Biography

  • P Vijayaraghavan, Zoological Research Laboratory, University of Madras
    Zoological Research Laboratory, University of Madras

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (1955)

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Vijayaraghavan, P. (2016). LIFE-HISTORY AND FEEDING HABITS OF THE SPOTTED SEER SCOMBEROMORUS GUTTATUS (BLOCK & SCHNEIDER). Indian Journal of Fisheries, 2(2), 360-372. https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJF/article/view/11190