scholarly journals Variation in evacuation rates of different foods skew estimates of diet in the western rock lobster Panulirus cygnus

2008 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kris Waddington
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Coralline Algae ◽  
Gut Content Analysis ◽  
Feeding Period ◽  
Gut Content ◽  
Rock Lobster ◽  
Panulirus Cygnus

Knowledge regarding differences in evacuation rates of diet items from a consumer’s stomach is important when using gut content analysis to quantify consumer diet. Evacuation rates of three diet items (pilchards, crabs and coralline algae) from the foreguts of western rock lobsters (Panulirus cygnus) were compared in aquaria. To determine evacuation rates, lobsters were allowed to consume offered food over a 90-min feeding period before being killed at 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 h after the feeding period concluded. Diet items differed in their rate of evacuation from lobster foreguts with coralline algae evacuated most rapidly, followed by crabs, then pilchards. The evacuation of crabs and pilchards was still not complete 12 h after the feeding period concluded. Food not evacuated after 12 h predominantly consisted of hard components of the lobster diet, indicating that it is these components that account for slower evacuation. Observed variation in evacuation rates between diet items may skew the results of studies that use gut content analysis to quantify the diet of western rock lobsters.

Foregut evacuation of four foods by the western rock lobster, Panulirus cygnus, in Aquaria

1982 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 939 ◽  
Author(s):  
LM Joll
Keyword(s):  
Coralline Algae ◽  
Feeding Period ◽  
Rock Lobster ◽  
Panulirus Cygnus

Foregut evacuation of four foods (two species of foliose coralline algae Corallina cuvieri and Metagoniolithon stelliferum, the gastropod Littorina unifasciata and foot muscle of the abalone Haliotis roei) by P. cygnus at 25°C was examined by serial slaughter techniques. Animals were allowed to consume the weighed meals voluntarily, but because of indifference to the corallines it was necessary to allow a 2-h feeding period. Evacuation of all foods was rapid and almost complete 4-6 h after the termination of the feeding period.

Analisis Isi Lambung Ikan Selais Terang Bulan (Kryptopterus bicirrhis, Valenciennes 1840) Di Desa Rantau Kasih Sungai Kampar Kiri Propinsi Riau

Biospecies ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
Ermi Yeni ◽  
Roza Elvyra
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Gut Content Analysis ◽  
Gut Content ◽  
Additional Food ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Carnivorous Fish ◽  
Supplementary Food ◽  
Main Food

The study on gut content of Selais Terang Bulan fish (Kryptopterus bicirrhis) in Rantau Kasih village Kampar Kiri river was conducted from Februari- April 2017. The purpose of this study was to know about gut content of Selais Terang Bulan fish which was categorized as main food, supplementary food and additional food. The analysis is done based on the instruction of Natardjan and Jhingran (1961). The gut content was analized using the Index of preponderance.  The result revealed that  the main food of  Selais Terang Bulan fish in Rantau Kasih village is adult Arthropoda with IP value (78.85%), and supplementary food is caterpillar (25.15%). Male and female fishes at have main food of adult Arthropoda with different percentages are (82.81%) male and female (71.32%). Based on the gut content analysis of Selais Terang Bulan fish was a carnivorous fish.

scholarly journals Comparative gut content analysis of invasive mosquitofish from Italy and Spain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Pirroni ◽  
Laura Pennafort Dezen ◽  
Francesco Santi ◽  
Rüdiger Riesch
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Gut Content Analysis ◽  
Gut Content

Detecting Specific Resource Use by Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) Using Gut Content Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 1496-1500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren M Diepenbrock ◽  
Jonathan G Lundgren ◽  
Tim L Sit ◽  
Hannah J Burrack
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Gut Content Analysis ◽  
Gut Content ◽  
Drosophila Suzukii

Systematic revision, diversity patterns and trophic ecology of the tropical Indo-West Pacific sea slug genus Phanerophthalmus A. Adams, 1850 (Cephalaspidea, Haminoeidae)

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 1336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Austin ◽  
Terrence Gosliner ◽  
Manuel A. E. Malaquias
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetics ◽  
Trophic Ecology ◽  
Rrna Genes ◽  
28S Rrna ◽  
Gut Content Analysis ◽  
Gut Content ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
West Pacific

Phanerophthalmus is a genus of Indo-West Pacific sea slugs inhabiting seagrass and coral reefs with up to now seven species currently recognised as valid. The goals of this study are to revise the systematics of Phanerophthalmus, infer its phylogeny and patterns of diversity, as well as study its diet. Morphology was combined with molecular phylogenetics based on two mitochondrial (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, 16S rRNA) and one nuclear (28S rRNA) genes. Molecular species delimitation methods (ABGD, DISSECT) were employed to aid delimiting species. Diet was assessed by gut content analysis. Seventeen species were recognised, 10 of them new to science (P. albotriangulatum, sp. nov., P. anettae, sp. nov., P. batangas, sp. nov., P. boucheti, sp. nov., P. cerverai, sp. nov., P. lentigines, sp. nov., P. paulayi, sp. nov., P. purpura, sp. nov., P. rudmani, sp. nov., P. tibiricae, sp. nov.). Phanerophthalmus has its highest diversity in the Western Pacific where 13 species occur with a peak in the Coral Triangle (11 species; three only known from here). Diversity decreases towards the Central Pacific with five species and Indian Ocean/Red Sea with four species. Only two species are distributed across the Indo-West Pacific. Preliminary gut content analysis suggests these slugs feed on diatoms.

scholarly journals Gut content analysis of cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis) in Asam Kumbang Crocodile Park, North Sumatra

2021 ◽  
Vol 912 (1) ◽  
pp. 012105
Author(s):  
E Jumilawaty ◽  
N Namira ◽  
A Anggelicha ◽  
A Hartanto
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Prey Species ◽  
Prey Availability ◽  
Biological Control Agent ◽  
Food Resource ◽  
Control Agent ◽  
Gut Content Analysis ◽  
Gut Content ◽  
Dominant Group ◽  
Bubulcus Ibis

Abstract Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) is a widespread avian species inhabiting a variety of natural and artificial sites. Asam Kumbang Crocodile Park is one of establishments that occupied some portions of B. ibis habitat with no recent information on the food resource and prey availability for the viability of B. ibis. To this aim, we collected 10 random individuals of B. ibis to be sacrificed for gut content analysis of prey species. A total of 19 taxa was found as prey items in the gut of B. ibis with the dominant group from insects (Orthoptera, Scolopendromorpha). The diversity of prey species was categorized as moderate with intraspecific diet variation which formed four guilds that fed on specific taxa namely Group 1 (Haplotaxida, Lepidoptera, Anurans), Group 2 (Blattodea, Coleoptera, Araneae), Group 3 (Orthoptera, Scolopendromorpha); and Group 4 (Dermaptera, Squamata). Oxya chinensis and Oxya velox are important rice grasshopper pests that were also found in the gut of B. ibis reflecting their potential function as biological control agent.

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