Pdf morphometry and diet of mormyrus rume in the lekki lagoon. These papers represent current important work in the field of undergraduate mathematics education and are elaborations of the rume conference reports. Catch per unit effort and some water quality parameters of. Paramormyrops kingsleyae gunther 1896 in honor of writer and explorer mary. Helminth parasites of some freshwater fish from river niger. Helminth parasites of some freshwater fish from river niger at illushi, edo state, nigeria onyedineke, nkechi esther 1. Damiano remorini for their assistance in developing the robotic fish replica. Trophic structure and interactions in lake ayame cote d. Bagrus bayad macropterus, synodontis schall, oreochromis niloticus, pollimyrus isidori, marcusenius senegalensis, schilbe uranoscopus, clarias lazera, lates niloticus, brycinus nurse and auchenoglanis occidentalis. The robotic platform presented in this research is called fishcontrolactuatorsensorunit or fishcasu. Mochokid and mormyrid families dominated fish community and constituted 14.
The effect of manmade lake on the diet of the african electric fish mormyrus rume valenciennes, 1846 osteoglossiformes. First, we constructed threedimensional models of the brains by segmenting brain from nonbrain in each microct scan image using a segmentation editor program in fiji and reconstructing those segments into 3d surface images of the brain 41, 42. Helminth parasites of some freshwater fish from river niger at. Electrical and behavioral courtship displays in the. Closedloop control of zebrafish behaviour in three. American journal of food science and technology 2, no. Dna barcoding of economically important freshwater fish.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the third international conference on biomimetic and biohybrid systems, living machines. Mortality and exploitation rates of challawa gorge dam fishes. The availability of cu, cr, pb, fe, mn, cd and zn in water, sediment, fish and plants samples from the rivers was detected using atomic absorption spectrophotometer. Mormyrus rume valenciennes 1847 vernacular used by senegalese fishermen for this species. Mormyrid electric fish rely on the waveform of their electric organ discharges eods for communicating species, sex, and social status, while they use the sequences of pulse intervals spis for communicating rapidly changing behavioral states and motivation. Lake geriyo is a flood plain lake, located at the outskirt of jimeta metropolis adamawa state on the northeast nigeria. Pdf social interactions between live and artificial.
Active electroreception in weakly electric fish oxford. Comparative study of qualityanalysis of three different. The animal diversity web is an educational resource written largely by and for college students. Electrocommunicating dummy fish initiate group behavior in the weakly electric fish mormyrus rume. Little is known of electric signaling during courtship behavior because of two major difficulties. The use of robotics to establish social interactions between animals and robots, represents an elegant and innovative method to investigate animal behaviour. Helminth parasites of some freshwater fish from river. Shelflife of moon fish citharinus citharus and tumk fish mormyrus rume during storage at ambient temperature and on ice. This study examines the utility of morphology and dna barcoding in species identification of freshwater fishes from north.
Forbidden planet 1956 as a veiled criticism of mccarthyism in 1950s america, william lorenzo. This study investigated the catch per unit effort and water quality of lake kalgwai jigawa state, nigeria for the period of 10 month july 2012. Pdf endoparasitic helminthes of four mormyrid species. Mortality and exploitation rates of challawa gorge dam. Here the eods of four nilosahelosudanic species, mormyrus caschive linnaeus, 1758, m. The natural habitat of weakly electric mormyrid fishes are turbid tropical rivers e. Proximate and macro element composition of four fish species. Pdf mormyrus rume rume, hyperopisus bebe bebe, campylomormyrus. A morphological study on species of african mormyrus. Jan 31, 2003 2000 in two main points, the position of the genus mormyrus and the position of h. Changes in physicochemical and sensory characteristics of smokedried fish species stored at ambient temperature.
A total of 27 mormyrus rume proboscirostris boulenger 1898 abbreviated to m. Environmental determinants influencing fish community. Free fulltext pdf articles from hundreds of disciplines, all in one place social interactions between live and artificial weakly electric fish. Analyses were done on lengthfrequency data to study the mortality and exploitation rates of fish species of challawa gorge dam. Mormyrus species mormyrus rume common name mormyrids lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits maximum longevity 6 years wild source ref. Determination of fatty acids from freshwater fish oils. We confronted single individuals of mormyrus rume proboscirostris with a mobile dummy.
Both active electrolocation and electrocommunication. Posthatching brain morphogenesis and cell proliferation in the pulsetype mormyrid mormyrus rume proboscirostris. International journal of agriculture and biosciences. It lies between longitude 1225e and latitude 98n figure 1. Mormyrids are active predators of worms and insects, foraging mainly at night moller 1995. Latifa, gulshan ara, subhash chandra chakraborty, mohajira begum, farzana binte farid, and mosarrat nabila nahid. Pdf social interactions between live and artificial weakly.
Mormyrus and its species including synonyms in catalog of fishes, eschmeyer, w. The twowheeled differential drive robot moves below the tank on a transparent platform figure 2b. Aspects of the biology of mormyrus rume cuvier and valenciennes in lekki lagoon were investigated. A study was conducted on four fresh water fish species. Bagridae chrysichthys coriscanus chrysichthys furcatus x x x 0 x 0 x x x x x x x x 4. Peters 1852 eastern bottlenose mormyrid mormyrus macrocephalus worthington 1929 largehead mormyrid mormyrus macrophthalmus. Eight individuals of mormyrus rume probosci rostris abbreviated to m.
Each gill arch was removed and examined to both quantify the number of parasites and their distribution on the gills. Social interactions between live and artificial weakly. Journal of fisheries and aquatic science volume 9, number 6. Mormyrids mormyrus rume longevity, ageing, and life history. Transfer factor and bioaccumulation of heavy metals in fishes. Clarias gariepinus, also known as african sharptooth catfish is a species of catfish of the family clariidae. Fish community structure was assessed in six wetlands using cast nets, to correlate with environmental variables with diversity and distribution patterns, from 2010 to 2012. Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The present report aims to characterise morphological and. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Characidae alestes nurse x 0 0 0 0 0 0 hepsetus odoe 0 0 x 0 0 x x 3.
Oluyemi, preliminary assessment of heavy metal pollution of opa reservoir, ileife, southwest nigeria using mormyrus rume and tilapia zillii, ife journal of science, vol. Some metal elements concentrations in snout fish mormyrus rume. Some metal elements concentrations in snout fish mormyrus. Nutritional composition of mormyrus rume and protopterus annectens from lake gerio, yola, adamawa state, nigeria idowu ta, umar ab, adedeji ha, jidauna sb and sogbesan oa download pdf fulltext. It was impounded on river hadeja in 1984 by the federal government of nigeria for the purpose of irrigation under the then hadejia valley irrigation project which was coordinated by hadejia. Field studies on the electric organ discharges eods of mormyrus species are rare, likely due to their biology hindering live capture in large numbers. Adw doesnt cover all species in the world, nor does it include all the latest scientific information about organisms we describe.
It was revealed that mormyrus rume has the allometric growth with b 2. Social interactions between live and artificial weakly electric fish. Coding of stimuli by ampullary afferents in gnathonemus. A total of 600 fish samples were collected, 50 samples from each species for the.
Usually moisture and fat contents in fish flesh are inversely related and there. Fishes that are of interest to this study are clarias gariepinus, mormyrus rume, and tilapia spp. Pdf lengthweight relationship and condition factor of four. Electrocommunication and locomotor behavior of mormyrus rume proboscirostris towards a mobile dummy fish. Extreme enlargement of the cerebellum in a clade of teleost. Jan 12, 2018 robotics is continuously being integrated in animal behaviour studies to create customizable, controllable, and repeatable stimuli. Spatial distribution and cellular composition of adult brain proliferative zones in the teleost, gymnotus omarorum. Notes on the electric organ discharges eods of four. Monogenean species of this fish consisted of bouixella yaoi, b. The lengthweight relatonship and condition factor of four mormyrid species namely mormyrus rume, hyperopisus bebe, campylomormyrus tamandua and gnathonemus petersii from anambra river were. The six mormyrids represent the greatest variation in phylogenetic relatedness and relative brain size across mormyrids. Pdf feeding habits and digestive enzymes in the gut of mormyrus. The mean rainfall however, four species namely mormyrus rume, data was 109.
Article pdf available in pakistan journal of biological sciences 112. The transfer factors and bioaccumulation of heavy metals in three fish species clarias gariepinus, murmyrus rume and tilapia zilli were assessed in rivers owan and evbiobe. Microecology of monogenean gill parasites of mormyrus rume. Campylomormyrus numenius boulenger 1898 genus name for curlews, wading birds whose. Oluyemi, preliminary assessment of heavy metal pollution of opa reservoir, ileife, southwest nigeria using mormyrus rume and tilapia zillii, ife journal of. Frontiers insights into the social behavior of surface. Evaluation of the nutritive qualities and organoleptic properties of labeo coubie and mormyrus rume from the cross river article pdf available january 2018 with 120 reads how we measure reads. The journal covers several key aspects in these fields by including research on topics like aquaculture, prawn cultivation, crab and pearl farming. Thirteen species of fish labeo coubie, citharinus citharus, hyperopisus bebe, mormyrops anguilloides, mormyrus rume, orechromis niloticus, sarotherodon galilaeus, clarias gariepinus, clarias anguillaris, heterobranchus bidorsalis, clariheterobranchus, lates niloticus and hydrocynus forskalii were studied for their oil fatty acids composition.
Twenty six species are found in nigerian waters and the largest of the species, mormyrus rume, capable of growing up to 100 cm is common in the middle reaches of cross river. Cell proliferation, migration, and neurogenesis in the. Comparative study of qualityanalysis of three different bangladeshi smokedried lean fishes using salt and turmeric stored at refrigeration temperature 4c. Taverne 1972 left the position of mormyrus unresolved at the base of the tree of the mormyrinae. Valenciennes 1847 from obubra region of cross river, cross river state, nigeria abstract mormyridae are important in fisheries in nigeria. It carries a neodymium magnet directed to the bottom side of. Stewart 1976 inga mormyrid mormyrus kannume forsskal 1775 elephantsnout fish mormyrus lacerda castelnau 1861 western bottlenose mormyrid mormyrus longirostris w. Under these conditions, unfavorable for visual orientation, mormyrids have developed an electric sense that allows them to detect, analyze, and identify nearby objects or. Protopterus annectens, labeo coubie, auchenoglanis occidentalis and mormyrus rume from lower river benue, makurdi to determine the proximate and macro elements composition of these fish species from lower river benue makurdi. A total of 2,239 individuals belonging to 44 species and 1,938 individuals belonging to 40 species were sampled in the dry and wet seasons.
Changes in brain structure may be most likely with the evolution of novel behaviors. Electrical and behavioral courtship displays in the mormyrid. Thirteen species of fish labeo coubie, citharinus citharus, hyperopisus bebe, mormyrops anguilloides, mormyrus rume, orechromis niloticus, sarotherodon galilaeus, clarias gariepinus, clarias anguillaris, heterobranchus bidorsalis, clariheterobranchus, lates niloticus and hydrocynus forskalii were studied for their oil fatty acids composition identification and. Electrocommunication and locomotor behavior of mormyrus rume proboscirostris towards a mobile dummy fish pdf paperity. Design of a modular robotic system that mimics small fish. They are found throughout africa and the middle east, and live in freshwater lakes, rivers, and swamps, as well as humanmade habitats. Phylogenetic utility of the first two introns of the s7. Adult neurogenesis, an essential mechanism of brain plasticity, enables brain development along postnatal life, constant addition of new neurons, neuronal turnover, andor regeneration. Determination of fatty acids from freshwater fish oils using. Investigation of collective behaviour and electrocommunication in the weakly electric fish, mormyrus rume, through a biomimetic robotic dummy fish. Widespread cell proliferation, high neurogenic, and regenerative capacities are. Though we edit our accounts for accuracy, we cannot guarantee all information in those accounts.
However, few systems have capitalized on recent breakthroughs in. Animals emit sequences of pulsetrains that vary in overall frequency and temporal patterning and can lead to timelocked interactions with the discharge activity of other individuals. Multiple cues produced by a robotic fish modulate aggressive. Mormyrus rume proboscirostris thus marked the outer limit of the playbacks active space with the onset of a long cessation.
Kalgwai barrage dam is situated in auyo local government area of jigawa state, nigeria figure 1. Spatial distribution and cellular composition of adult brain. Jun, 2018 this study examines the utility of morphology and dna barcoding in species identification of freshwater fishes from north. Extreme enlargement of the cerebellum in a clade of. Mormyrid weakly electric fish produce short, pulsetype electric organ discharges for actively probing their environment and to communicate with conspecifics. Robotic animals are nowadays developed for various types of research, such as bioinspired robotics, biomimetics, and animal behavioral studies. Mormyrus rume from manmade lake ayame i between july 2015 and june 2016. Mormyrus is a genus of fish in the family mormyridae. Some ichyofauna status of lake geriyo, adamawa state.
The man hours, gears used, and fish catches of the lake was determined by assessing. Transfer factor and bioaccumulation of heavy metals in. The design of these robots poses great challenges as. Proximate and macro element composition of four fish. It is amply distributed but negatively modulated during development and along evolution. Gulshan ara latifa, subhash chandra chakraborty, mohajira begum, farzana binte farid and mosarrat nabila nahid.
Weakly electric mormyrus rume have been shown to follow a. Spatial distribution and cellular composition of adult. Sep, 2017 social interactions between live and artificial weakly electric fish. It is a shallow water body with a mean depth of about 2 meters and the mean annual rainfall of is between 900 and 1100 mm with the rainy season ranging from 150 to 160 days. This included the lengthweight relationship, condition. Pdf lengthweight relationship and condition factor of. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Electrocommunication and locomotor behavior of mormyrus rume. Pdf the feeding habits of 436 elephant snout fish, mormyrus rume valenciennes 1846, from river ose were investigated. While these different studies demonstrated the potential to develop artificial devices that are able to interact with fish, there is no solution involving an active. I have a bit of a reusable bag sickness like the flower pot idea. Current usage metrics show cumulative count of article views fulltext article views including html views, pdf and epub downloads, according to the available data and abstracts views on vision4press platform.
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