%0 Journal Article
%T Food and Feeding Habit of Juvenile Channa punctatus (Bloch) from a Semi-closed Water Body in Chalan Beel Floodplain, Bangladesh
%A M. Nazrul Islam
%A Shahanaz Parvin
%A Firoz Hyder
%A Fawzia Adib Flowra
%J Journal of Biological Sciences
%D 2004
%I Asian Network for Scientific Information
%X The food and feeding habit of the juvenile Channa punctatus (Bloch) have been carried out from a semi-closed water body during the month of Dec. to Mar. The present study revealed that the average percentage occurrence of the food items of juvenile C. punctatus was crustaceans (10.38%), insects (16.87%), molluscs (14.27%), fishes (34.73%), plant materials (10.58%) and semi-digested food materials (13.16%). The present investigation also revealed that the juvenile of C. punctatus is carnivorous in feeding habit, mainly fed on the animal food (76.25% of the total consumption) viz., crustaceans, insects, molluscs and fishes.
%K Food-feeding
%K juvenile channa punctatus
%K semi-close beel
%U http://docsdrive.com/pdfs/ansinet/jbs/2004/352-356.pdf