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Morphology of the digestive tract of Barbus xanthopterus and Ctenopharyngodon idella | ||
| The Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Medicine (IJVM) | ||
| Article 26, Volume 36, Issue 0, 2012, Pages 187-196 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ali J. Shubber; Abdulmotalib J. Al-Rudainy | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The aim of this study is to detected the morphology of the alimentary canal in two freshwater fish species, Gattan Barbus xanthopterus and Grass carp Ctenopharyngodo idella which belonged to cyprinidae.. Increasing in mouth width with body length. Generally pharyngeal teeth arranged according to the following formulas. Gattan : 4-3-2 and 2-3-4 Grass carp: 2-5 and 4-2. Variations in the shape, size of pharyngeal teeth were noticed. They appear short and wide compact in gattan, but hard and serrated, comb like in grass carp. Different intestinal length were seen indicating differ in feeding natures. | ||
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