Morphology of the digestive tract of Barbus xanthopterus and Ctenopharyngodon idella
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...
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University of Baghdad, College of Veterinary Medicine
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| author | Abdulmotalib J. Al-Rudainy |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-c1eee14aedb14f90900abb428cb5c20b2022-12-21T20:14:51ZengUniversity of Baghdad, College of Veterinary MedicineThe Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Medicine1609-56932410-74092012-04-01360A10.30539/iraqijvm.v36i0A.373Morphology of the digestive tract of Barbus xanthopterus and Ctenopharyngodon idellaAbdulmotalib J. Al-Rudainy0College of Veterinary Medicine, Baghdad UniversityThe 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.https://jcovm.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/Iraqijvm/article/view/373 |
| spellingShingle | Abdulmotalib J. Al-Rudainy Morphology of the digestive tract of Barbus xanthopterus and Ctenopharyngodon idella The Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Medicine |
| title | Morphology of the digestive tract of Barbus xanthopterus and Ctenopharyngodon idella |
| title_full | Morphology of the digestive tract of Barbus xanthopterus and Ctenopharyngodon idella |
| title_fullStr | Morphology of the digestive tract of Barbus xanthopterus and Ctenopharyngodon idella |
| title_full_unstemmed | Morphology of the digestive tract of Barbus xanthopterus and Ctenopharyngodon idella |
| title_short | Morphology of the digestive tract of Barbus xanthopterus and Ctenopharyngodon idella |
| title_sort | morphology of the digestive tract of barbus xanthopterus and ctenopharyngodon idella |
| url | https://jcovm.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/Iraqijvm/article/view/373 |
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