Journal of Fisheries & Livestock Production
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Research Article

Morphometric Study of Blood Clam, Tegillarca rhombea (Born, 1778)

Meshram AM and Mohite SA^*

Department of Fisheries Biology, College of Fisheries Biology, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India

Corresponding Author:

Mohite SA
Associate Professor
Department of Fisheries Biology
College of Fisheries Biology, Ratnagiri
Maharashtra, India
Tel: 02352-232241
E-mail: sa_mohite@yahoo.co.in

Received date March 24, 2016; Accepted date March 31, 2016; Published date April 10, 2016

Citation: Meshram AM, Mohite SA (2016) Morphometric Study of Blood Clam, Tegillarca rhombea (Born, 1778). J Fisheries Livest Prod 4:179. doi: 10.4172/2332-2608.1000179

Copyright: © 2016 Meshram AM, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Morphometric study of blood clam, Tegillarca (Anadara) rhombea was undertaken for the period of twelve months from February 2014 to March 2015 (except June-July) at the Ratnagiri coast of Maharashtra, India. Relationships between shell length (L), shell height (Ht.), shell width (Wd), hinge length (Hg), total weight (Wt.), wet weight (WWt) and dry weight (dWt) were studied in total 1200 blood clams. Linear regressions calculated were Ht=6.068+0.7106 L, Wd=2.938+0.9041 L, Hg=-0.7707+0.6649 L, Log Wt=Log (-2.795)+2.67 Log L, Log Wwt=Log(-1.0834)+1.2395 Log L, Log Dw=Log (-2.16)+1.30 Log L respectively. From the present study, it can be concluded that more or less similar growth pattern was observed in different months though a faster growth rate was observed during postmonsoon due to the recruitment of small sized clams in January, which grew at a faster rate initially and the growth rate decreased afterward as the energy was utilized for gonadal developments and other body functions.

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