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Histology of Digestive Tract of Juvenile Seahorse (Hippocampus Comes)
Nur Syakirah binti Abdul Latif
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mohd Effendy Abd. Wahid
Bachelor of Applied Science (Fisheries)
School of Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciences
This study evaluated the histology and absent of digestive tract of juvenile seahorses
from tanks in hatchery aquaculture of University Malaysia Terengganu. The live
artemia nauplii collected as conventional live food is use for rearing juveniles of the
Tiger tail seahorse Hippocampus comes for 1 to 3 days and 13 to 15 days. There are
some documented facts that only focused on external and internal morphology of
seahorse but very limited information about specific details on how seahorse feed on
their food without the present of digestive tract such as Tiger tail seahorse. In addition,
based on most of all documented facts about seahorses say that seahorse has no
digestive tract since they suck their prey through snout by expansion of the buccal
cavity which is called as suction feeding. Thus, because of the lack facts about the
species now it is seem to be necessary to study the knowledge about the digestive
tract of juvenile seahorses. It is interesting to find out how the structure of digestive
tract of the species is functioning by histology techniques.
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