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A Megalops cyprinoides of 60 g wet weight is able to consume daily a maximum amount of food (the prawn, Metapenaeus monoceros) equivalent to 5% of its own body weight. This amount of food is absorbed at the same efficiency as by an individual consuming daily the equivalent of 2% of its body weight. Hence the quantity of total food absorbed and converted per day must increase as a function of feeding rate. However, the increase in conversion efficiency showed a diminishing trend at a feeding level of 4% body weight per day.
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Communicated by O. Kinne, Hamburg
This paper formed part of the author's Ph.D. thesis submitted to the University of Madras, India.
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Pandian, T.J. Transformation of food in the fish Megalops cyprinoides . Marine Biol. 1, 107–109 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00386513
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