THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOME BODILY VARIABLES IN ARISTICHTHYS NOBILIS AND HYPOPHTHALMICHTHYS MOLITRIX
Keywords:
bodily variables, bighead carp, silver carpAbstract
The paper performs a comparative analysis of some bodily variables (maximum
bodily height, circumference and bodily weight) in two cultured cyprinids species
grown in a controlled system, namely: Aristichthys nobilis (bighead carp) and
Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (silver carp), of various ages (starting with the first up
to the fourth growth summer). The results obtained evidenced that, in the foursummer old the representatives of Aristichthys nobilis show slightly higher values
than those of Hypophthalmichthys genus, for the all bodily variables taken into
study.
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