The Alimentary Canal and Digestion in Teleosts

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the alimentary canal and digestion in teleosts. It recognizes several types of teleosts on the basis of the different foods taken by them and their feeding habits: plankton feeders, herbivores, omnivores, carnivores, and specialists. The various degrees of specialization in feeding habits lead to the distinction of europhags, stenophags and monophags. Many cell types of the teleost digestive tract have been examined electron-microscopically, such as oral epithelial cells, chloride cells, scattered chemosensory cells, the cells of taste buds, intestinal goblet cells, and epithelium cells. Histo- and cyto-chemical techniques have been used in the study of the teleostean alimentary canal. Because the inner lining of this canal is mucified, emphasis is given to the mucus-secreting cells, which appear to contain either neutral or acidic mucopolysaccharides. In many teleosts, alkaline phosphatase and acid phosphatase activity has been detected in the brush-border of intestinal and cecal epithelia. Feeding rates have been measured by observing food intake under laboratory conditions with restricted or excess rations. The chapter discusses three methods by which the digestion rate in fish is estimated––namely, (1) by measuring the time interval between food intake and defecation, (2) by measuring the stomach contents at various time intervals after feeding, and (3) by using X-rays for observing the progress of digestion with time.

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