Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Studies on the food and feeding of the freshwater calanoid Rhinediaptomus Indicus Kiefer

II: Diurnal variations in feeding propensities

  • Published:
Hydrobiologia Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Summary

Summary

  1. 1.

    This copepod Rhinediaptomus indicus appears to feed all twenty four hours of the day, showing increased feeding activity during the night hours.

  2. 2.

    The females feed more than males and stage V copepodids.

2013

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

Notes

  1. Not referred in original.

References

  • Conover, J. - 1968 - Zooplankton life in nutritionally dilute environment. Amer. Zoologist, 8: 106–118.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gauld, TD. T. - 1953 - Diurnal variations in the grazing of planktonic copepods, J. mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. Vol. XXXI, pp. 461–474.

    Google Scholar 

  • Marshall, S. M. Orr. A. P. - 1955 - The biology of a marine copepod Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnurus) Oliver & Boyd, London.

    Google Scholar 

  • Footnote

    Not referred in original.

    Wimpenny, R. S. - 1938 - Diurnal variations in the feeding and breeding of zooplankton related to the numerical balance of the Zoophyto-plankton community. J. Cons. Inst. Explor. Mer. 13: 323–336.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Zoology, Christian College, Martandam, K.K.Dist., Madras States, S. India

    P. Jai Singh

Authors
  1. P. Jai Singh
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Jai Singh, P. Studies on the food and feeding of the freshwater calanoid Rhinediaptomus Indicus Kiefer. Hydrobiologia 39, 209–215 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00047184

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00047184

Keywords

Search

Navigation