On the Food and Feeding Habits of Eight Species of Leiognathus Found in Manila Bay and San Miguel Bay

K. Tiews
Institute fur Kusten-und Binnenfischerei der
Bundesforschungsanstalt fur Fischerei,
Hamburg, Germany


P. Divino, I.A. Ronquillo and J. Marquez

Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
Manila, Philippines

Abstract

This paper describes and tabulates the food organisms and notes specific feeding habits of Leiognathus splendens, L. bindus, L. insidiator, L. ruconious, L. blochii, L. daura, L. equulus and L. leuciscus, nothing particularly the differences between the consumption of plankton and benthos by the several species.


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