✦ LIBER ✦
A contribution to the study of the food of six cyprinid fishes in three areas of the Lake Victoria basin, East Africa
✍ Scribed by John S. Balirwa
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 465 KB
- Volume
- 66
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1573-5141
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✦ Synopsis
An account of the food of six species of cyprinid fish from the Lake Victoria basin is given . All the species studied possess tubular stomachs and analysis was carried out on entire guts, the relative importance of the various dietary items being assessed by the frequency occurrence method . Results indicate that these species are omnivorous, and their food ranges from debris, diatoms through algae, insect larvae to molluscs . Comparison of the food of Barbus spp . from the lake and river shows that riverine fish ingest more plant material than lake fish .