Effects of Temperature on the Gastric Evacuation Rate and Maintenance Ration of Adult Pointhead Flounder Cleisthenes pinetorum
Sango Nishio,
Orio Yamamura
Abstract:We investigated the gastric evacuation rate (GER) and maintenance ration (MR) for the adult pointhead flounder Cleisthenes pinetorum (77–421 g) at 4°C, 9°C, and 14°C which reflect the bottom, middle, and surface temperatures of their habitat in early summer. GERs were obtained from gravimetric experiments with 34 flounders fed juvenile walleye pollock Gadus chalcogrammus as prey. A 169‐day feeding experiment for 67 pointhead flounders fed krill Thysanoessa inermis was undertaken to measure MR. The effects of a… Show more
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