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Provedor de dados: | 83
País: | Brazil
Título: | Feeding of juvenile pirarucu (Arapaima gigas, Arapaimidae) in their natural environment, lago Quatro Bocas, Araguaiana-MT, Brazil
Autores: | Oliveira,Valdézio de; Poleto,Stephania Luz; Venere,Paulo Cesar.
Data: | 2005-06-01
Ano: | 2005
Palavras-chave: | Food habits; Araguaia; Osteoglossiformes; Omnivorous.
Resumo: | The stomach content of samples of juvenile Arapaima gigas was analized to obtain information about feeding in natural environments. This species occurs in the Amazonian basin, predominantly in floodplain environment. This is the case of the valley of the middle rio Araguaia, where the lago Quatro Bocas is situated. Juveniles A. gigas prefered insects, microcrustaceans and gastropods, most of autochthonous origin. All the stomachs examined contained at least one food item.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252005000200010
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia
Relação: | 10.1590/S1679-62252005000200010
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Neotropical Ichthyology  v.3 n.2 2005
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess