Abstract
Loligo duvauceli which contributes to the cephalopod fishery in India is a carnivorous like other cephalopod species. Its stomach contents are mainly the crustaceans, fish and squid. Mysiids, euphausiids and ostracods from bulk of the crustacean intake in the squid diet. Major items of food differ significantly from month to month. Fish always occurs in the diet of the squids of all sizes. The preference to crustacean meal declines with the increase in size and the squids above 80 mm in size are cannibals. Crustaceans are present in the squid stomach during four month period, October to January. The data indicate that the occurrence of empty stomachs is more common in female than in male squids. Normal feeding was noticed during the period January to May 1970, but the slackness in the feeding was evident in October–November 1969 during spawning period.
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Kore, B.A., Joshi, M.C. Food of the squid,Loligo duvauceli d’Orbigny. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 81, 20–28 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03050743
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