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Field guide to Nigerian freshwater fishes
B.D. Olaosebikan,A. Raji +1 more
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The article was published on 1998-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 176 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Field (physics).read more
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Amino acid composition of three species of Nigerian fish: Clarias anguillaris, Oreochromis niloticus and Cynoglossus senegalensis
TL;DR: An investigation into the concentrations of amino acids in three species of Nigerian fish: Clarias anguillaris, Oreochromis niloticus and Cynoglossus senegalensis was carried out, finding that the most abundant amino acid was Glu and Leu was the most plentiful while total amino acid content was 618–637 mg/g crude protein.
Food and Feeding Habits of Oreochromis niloticus (L.) and Sarotherodon galilaeus (L.) in a Tropical Reservoir
O. Fagbuaro,Ado Ekiti +1 more
TL;DR: The result of the analysis showed that O. niloticus and S. galilaeus fed on similar food items and are omnivorous and occupy the same ecological niche in Ero reservoir.
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DNA barcoding discriminates freshwater fishes from southeastern Nigeria and provides river system-level phylogeographic resolution within some species
Christopher Didigwu Nwani,Sven Becker,Heather E. Braid,E. F. Ude,Okechukwu Idumah Okogwu,Robert Hanner +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, fishes were collected from three rivers in southeastern Nigeria, identified morphologically, and imaged digitally, and DNA was extracted, PCR-amplified, and the standard barcode region was bidirectionally sequenced for 363 individuals belonging to 70 species in 38 genera.
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Diet, size and reproductive biology of the silver catfish, Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus (Siluformes: Bagridae) in the Cross River, Nigeria
TL;DR: The silver catfish, Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus (Lacépède: 1803) is a highly valued food-fish included among the dominant commercial catches exploited in major rivers of Africa.
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Use of ethanol extracts of Garcinia kola as fertility enhancer in female catfish Clarias gariepinus broodstock.
A. A. Dada,V. O. Ajilore +1 more
TL;DR: The results of the study has shown that the ethanol extract of G. kola seeds possesses promising profertility property which can be exploited in fish seeds production.