An energy-based analysis of particulate-feeding and filter-feeding by blue tilapia, Tilapia aurea

1993 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas W. Yowell ◽  
Gary L. Vinyard
1992 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 13-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wim Hoogenboezem ◽  
Eddy H. R. R. Lammens ◽  
Yvette van Vugt ◽  
Jan W. M. Osse

1989 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 1250-1254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Ehlinger

Golden shiners (Notemigonus crysoleucas) use two distinct foraging modes when feeding on zooplankton. Shiners particulate-feed on large cladocerans, visually locating and attacking individual prey items. Shiners also pump filter-feed on high densities of small zooplankton, using no apparent visual cues to detect prey. Particulate-feeding and filter-feeding functional response curves were determined from laboratory experiments. Particulate-feeding rates on Daphnia pulex increased with shiner size, but filter-feeding rates on Bosmina decreased with shiner size. Experiments with both prey types present simultaneously revealed that shiners can switch between foraging modes on a short time scale which increases their total foraging return by filter-feeding on Bosmina in between Daphnia encounters. This behavioral flexibility has consequences for both fish and zooplankton community structure in winterkill lakes. The ability to switch feeding modes on a short time scale allows shiners to exist in lakes that are dominated by small zooplankton yet still provides a mechanism to effectively remove large cladocerans when they are encountered.


Author(s):  
Kefah Naser Abdul-Ameer ◽  
Fatima Khalaf Atwan

   The Ciliophoran Trichodina magna Van As and Basson, 1989 is recorded for the first time in in Iraq from gills of the blue tilapia Oreochromis aureus (Steindachner, 1864) Iraq from Al-Graiat location on the Tigris River at Baghdad city. The description and measurements of this external parasite as well as its illustrations are given.  


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
M. Ryan King ◽  
Andrew D. La Croix ◽  
Terry A. Gates ◽  
Paul B. Anderson ◽  
Lindsay E. Zanno

Abstract A new ichnospecies, Glossifungites gingrasi n. isp., is described from multiple locations in basal sand-filled coastal plain distributary channels of the Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) Ferron Sandstone (central Utah). Glossifungites gingrasi n. isp. is attributed to the ichnogenus Glossifungites based on the presence of scratch imprints, passive fill, and a tongue-shaped structure, yet the new ichnospecies is distinct because it displays transverse bioglyphs that run perpendicular to the planiform structure, which contrasts to the axis parallel bioglyphs present in the ichnospecies G. saxicava. The transverse arrangement of ornamentation exhibited by G. gingrasi n. isp. is observed in modern subaqueous insect burrows produced by mayfly and chironomid larvae, and constitutes a way to differentiate insect-generated burrows from structures produced by crustaceans that are known to create other Glossifungites ichnospecies. Differentiating insect- from crustacean-generated burrows is significant because it provides a way to distinguish bioturbation by marine-recruited fauna from that produced by freshwater fauna in the rock record, making G. gingrasi n. isp. a valuable ichnological tool for paleoenvironmental and stratigraphic interpretation. While G. gingrasi n. isp. may represent a burrow created by a variety of filter-feeding subaqueous insects, the large size of G. gingrasi n. isp. in the Ferron Sandstone suggests that the largest specimens are probable mayfly burrows and supports the assertion that burrowing mayflies (e.g., Polymitarcyidae and Ephemeridae) adapted to domicile filter-feeding during or prior to the Turonian. UUID: http://zoobank.org/a033b22f-bf09-481a-975e-3a1b096154cc


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (23) ◽  
pp. 13544-13554
Author(s):  
Charles Larouche‐Bilodeau ◽  
Xavier Guilbeault‐Mayers ◽  
Christopher B. Cameron

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