Feeding Habit and Length-weight Relationship of a Mudskipper Apocryptes Bato (Hamilton, 1822) from the Coast of Chittagong, Bangladesh

Authors

  • Mohammed Sadequer Rahman Institute of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, University of Chittagong, Chittagong-4331
  • Mohammad Mizanur Rahman Institute of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, University of Chittagong, Chittagong-4331
  • Md Sohel Parvez National Oceanographic Research Institute (NORI), Ramu, Cox?s Bazar
  • Md. Rashed un Nabi Institute of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, University of Chittagong, Chittagong-4331

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/jbas.v40i1.28325

Keywords:

Food and feeding, Carnivorous, Condition factor

Abstract

Diet analysis revealed that Apocryptes bato is a carnivorous fish. It depends on shrimps and non-shrimp crustaceans mainly. Shrimps include Acetes, penaeid and metapenaeid juveniles, whereas non-shrimp crustaceans include copepods, crab larvae, mysids and amphipods predominantly. The total body lengths (TL) varied between 11.20 and 22.20 cm and weight 16.70 to 43.50 g in male fish. The form of the equation for TL and weight relationship was W = 0.44TL2.57 and for standard length (SL) it was W = 1.009SL2.66. Condition factor (K) ranged from 0.87 to 1.23. The TL was 15.00 to 26.00 cm and weight as 25.1 to 38.50 g in female. The equation was W = 1.001TL2.52 for TL and W = 1.003SL2.63 for SL and K value ranged from 0.95 to 1.106. The coefficient of correlation was tested with t test and found highly significant at the 5% level of significance for TL and SL both in the case of male and female.

Journal of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, Vol. 40, No. 1, 57-64, 2016

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Mohammed Sadequer Rahman, Institute of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, University of Chittagong, Chittagong-4331



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Published

2016-06-22

How to Cite

Rahman, M. S., Rahman, M. M., Parvez, M. S., & Nabi, M. R. un. (2016). Feeding Habit and Length-weight Relationship of a Mudskipper Apocryptes Bato (Hamilton, 1822) from the Coast of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Journal of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, 40(1), 57–64. https://doi.org/10.3329/jbas.v40i1.28325

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Vol. 40 No. 1 (2016)

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