Abundance and composition of zooplankton at Sitakunda coast of Chittagong, Bangladesh

Authors

  • Md Shahzad Kuli Khan Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute, Marine Fisheries and Technology Station, Cox?s Bazar-4700
  • Sheikh Aftab Uddin Institute of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, University of Chittagong, Chittagong-4331
  • Mohammed Ashraful Haque Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute, Marine Fisheries and Technology Station, Cox?s Bazar-4700

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/ralf.v2i1.23053

Keywords:

Mangrove area, Zooplankton, Copepoda, Fish larvae

Abstract

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Eight groups of zooplankton were found at Sitakunda coast, Chittagong, northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal during January to June 2007. The identified groups were Appendicularia (2.46%), Chaetognatha (2.45%), Cladocera (2.31%), Copepoda (26.05%), Ctenophora (5.86%), Crustacean zooplankton (21.64%), Ichthyoplankton (17.77%) and Meroplankton (21.45%). Abundance of zooplankton varied from 413 to 7730 individuals/m3.Mangrove vegetate area (station- VI) has the highest abundant possibly due to the organic and inorganic matters dissolved in the water while ship breaking area (station- IV) has the lowest abundant. Zooplankton population was significantly (p>0.05) higher in the mangrove vegetate area than the fishermen community area and ship breaking area. The mangrove vegetate area has the highest composition (57.06%) of zooplankton than the fishers community area and ship breaking area (29.77% and 13.16%, respectively). Calanus sp. (12.29%) belonging to Copepods and fish eggs (9.25%) belonging to Ichthyoplankton were the most abundant and Oikopleura albicans (0.66%) from Appendicularia, Metapenaeus brevicornis (0.71%) and Metapenaeus monoceros (0.90%) belonging to Crustacean larvae were the lowest abundant species found at three major investigated area.

Res. Agric., Livest. Fish.2(1): 151-160, April 2015

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Md Shahzad Kuli Khan, Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute, Marine Fisheries and Technology Station, Cox?s Bazar-4700



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Published

2015-04-27

How to Cite

Khan, M. S. K., Uddin, S. A., & Haque, M. A. (2015). Abundance and composition of zooplankton at Sitakunda coast of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Research in Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries, 2(1), 151–160. https://doi.org/10.3329/ralf.v2i1.23053

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015)

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Fisheries

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