On the Food of Young Fishes

Authors

  • Stephen A. Forbes Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.inhs.v1i3.456

Keywords:

fish, trophic ecology

Abstract

The food of many fishes differs greatly according to age. The life of most of our fishes divides into at least two periods, and of many into three, with respect tot he kinds of food chiefly taken. Further, in the first of these periods a remarkable similarity of food was noticed among species and families whose later food-habits are widely different.  Based on the examination of 126 specimens ranging 3/8" to 1.5" in length, representing 24 genera in 11 families.

 


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Title page of the 2nd edition of the Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History volume 1 number 3.

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Published

1903-12-31

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 3 (1880): Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History: Studies of the Food of Birds, Insects, and Fishes Made at the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, at Normal, Illinois

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