Oxygen uptake through gills and skin in relation to body weight of an air‐breathing siluroid fish, <i>Saccobranchus (=Heteropneustes) fossilis</i>

Munshi, J. S. Datta; Pandey, B. N.; Pandey, Pramod Kumar; Ojha, Jagdish

doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1978.tb03273.x

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“…The effect of various pollutants on the respiratory physiology of fishes have been investigated in recent years by several workers, viz. Waiwood and Jonson, 1974;Kawastski and Mc Donald 1974;Hughes, 1975;Munshi et al, 1976;Singh and Singh, 1979;Kumar and Pandey, 2002;Gibson and Mathis, 2006 The present result indicates that maximum quantity of mercury was accumulated by weeds of IAMB system with greatest rapidly upto 144 h of exposure.…”

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Physiological observation on activity recovery of mercury exposed fresh water fish by using aquatic weed

Trivedi

Sharma

Shrivastava

et al. 2009

ECJ

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Physiological observation on activity recovery of mercury exposed fresh water fish were done by using aquatic weeds. Five weeds constitute two floating weeds Eichhornia and Salvinia in surface layers, Chara and Hydrilla in the column layer and Vallisneria in bottom layer. Five experimental groups constituting five selected weeds were subjected to establish fish lethal concentration of mercury for a period of 48h, 96h, 144h, 192h and 240h to facilitate mercury absorption. All the data shows that mercury removal efficiency increases with increased time exposure. The present results indicate that maximum quantity of mercury was accumulated by weeds of IAMB rapidly up to 144h of exposure.

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Physiological observation on activity recovery of mercury exposed fresh water fish by using aquatic weed

Trivedi

Sharma

Shrivastava

et al. 2009

ECJ

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“…This value is higher than the exponent values reported for a number of purely aquatic breathing fishes (Jager and Dekkers, 1975;Ojha and Singh, 1981;Sinha 1983;Roy and M unshi, 1984;Singh et al, 1991). The slope value of G. telchitta was much higher than the 'b' values of many air breathing fish (M unshi and Dube, 1973;Ojha et al, 1978). But the exponent value 0.841, in the facultative air-breathing Siluroid, Clarias batrachus (M unshi et al, 1976) was comparatively very closer to the exponent value of G. telchitta (i.e., 0.9303.…”

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Oxygen uptake in relation to body weight in a Hillstream fish Glyptothorax telchitta (Ham.)

Subba

Ghosh

2013

Nepalese J Biosci

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Oxygen uptake (VO 2 ) through the gills of a hill-stream fish Glyptothorax telchitta from the Saptakoshi river (Nepal) has been studied in relation to different body weights. The oxygen uptake was determined at 24.0±1°C using a cylindrical glass respirometer with continuous water flow system. The aquatic oxygen uptake through the gills increased from 1.048 to 8.115 mlO 2 kg -1 .h -1 within the body weight range of 3.215 to 31.355 g. A fish of 17.052 g average body weight consumes 4.461 mlO 2 while the weight specific oxygen uptake was found to be 267.915 mlO 2 kg -1 .h -1 . The relation between oxygen uptake (VO 2 ) and body weight was determined by performing regression analysis using logarithmic transformation. It has been found that with a unit increase in body weight, the oxygen uptake per unit time (mlO 2 h -1 ) increases by a power of 0.930 showing significant positive correlation whereas, the weight specific oxygen uptake decreases by a power of 0.070 showing significant but negative correlation.

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“…As described, all of the above can be used for both air and water, separately and in combination (Table ). Some of the earlier studies measured only aerial respiration (Munshi et al , , ) while others measured only aquatic respiration (Berg & Steen, ; Teal & Carey, ), and this approach is still in use (Tripathi et al , ; Porteus et al , ). Yet, others have confined fishes to either medium during the measurements and several studies have performed both successively on the same species.…”

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Measuring oxygen uptake in fishes with bimodal respiration

Lefevre

Bayley

McKenzie

2015

Journal of Fish Biology

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Respirometry is a robust method for measurement of oxygen uptake as a proxy for metabolic rate in fishes, and how species with bimodal respiration might meet their demands from water v. air has interested researchers for over a century. The challenges of measuring oxygen uptake from both water and air, preferably simultaneously, have been addressed in a variety of ways, which are briefly reviewed. These methods are not well-suited for the long-term measurements necessary to be certain of obtaining undisturbed patterns of respiratory partitioning, for example, to estimate traits such as standard metabolic rate. Such measurements require automated intermittent-closed respirometry that, for bimodal fishes, has only recently been developed. This paper describes two approaches in enough detail to be replicated by the interested researcher. These methods are for static respirometry. Measuring oxygen uptake by bimodal fishes during exercise poses specific challenges, which are described to aid the reader in designing experiments. The respiratory physiology and behaviour of air-breathing fishes is very complex and can easily be influenced by experimental conditions, and some general considerations are listed to facilitate the design of experiments. Air breathing is believed to have evolved in response to aquatic hypoxia and, probably, associated hypercapnia. The review ends by considering what realistic hypercapnia is, how hypercapnic tropical waters can become and how this might influence bimodal animals' gas exchange.

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Oxygen uptake through gills and skin in relation to body weight of an air‐breathing siluroid fish, Saccobranchus (=Heteropneustes) fossilis

Cited by 17 publications

References 5 publications

Physiological observation on activity recovery of mercury exposed fresh water fish by using aquatic weed

Physiological observation on activity recovery of mercury exposed fresh water fish by using aquatic weed

Oxygen uptake in relation to body weight in a Hillstream fish Glyptothorax telchitta (Ham.)

Measuring oxygen uptake in fishes with bimodal respiration

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