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Diet and feeding daily rhythm of Pimelodella lateristriga (Osteichthyes, Siluriformes) in a coastal stream from Serra do Mar - RJ

Dieta e ritmo diário da alimentação de Pimelodella lateristriga (Osteichthyes, Siluriformes) de um riacho costeiroda Serra do Mar - RJ

Abstracts

The present study was carried out in Mato Grosso fluvial system, a costal drainage from Serra do Mar. We analysed the diet and the feeding daily rhythm of Pimelodella lateristriga from samples carried out during 24 hours over a 4 hour fishing interval, in June, July and September, 2006 as well as in January and February, 2007. Diet was described from the Feeding Index (IAi) and feeding daily rhythm was verified through the Gut Fullness Index (GFI). Pimelodella lateristriga diet was composed of 37 items, being aquatic insects the most important ones. IAi analysis revealed that Diptera, Trichoptera and Ephemeroptera amounted to 90% of the diet. Autochthonous invertebrates were the most important consumed items. Pimelodella lateristriga concentrated its feeding activities in the nocturnal period (10:00 PM to 2:00 AM) with marked significant differences (F = 16.11; gl = 5; p < 0.05) between each diurnal and nocturnal periods. Between 6:00 AM and 6:00 PM, foraging activity was gradually reduced. We concluded that P. lateristriga has an insectivorous diet and a nocturnal feeding habit with greater activity between 10:00 PM to 2:00 AM.

trophic ecology; feeding daily rhythm; stream-dwelling fishes


O presente estudo foi desenvolvido no sistema fluvial do rio Mato Grosso que compõe uma drenagem costeira da Serra do Mar. Foi analisado o hábito alimentar e o ritmo alimentar diário de Pimelodella lateristriga a partir de amostras obtidas em coletas de 24 horas, com intervalos de 4 horas, em junho-julho-setembro/2006 e janeiro- fevereiro/2007. A dieta foi avaliada a partir do Índice Alimentar (IAi) e o ritmo alimentar diário, com base no Índice de Repleção Estomacal (GFI) dos peixes. A dieta de P. lateristriga foi composta por 37 itens, sendo os insetos aquáticos os mais abundantes. O IAi revelou que Diptera, Trichoptera e Ephemeroptera somaram 90% da dieta, sendo, portanto, os invertebrados autóctones os itens mais consumidos. Pimelodella lateristriga concentrou sua atividade alimentar no período noturno (10:00 até 14:00 horas) com diferenças significativas (F = 16,11; gl = 5; p < 0,05) entre os horários diurnos e noturnos. Entre os horários 6 am e 6 pm a atividade de forrageamento foi gradualmente reduzida. Concluímos que P. lateristriga possui dieta insetívora e ritmo alimentar noturno com pico de atividade entre 10:00 até 14:00 horas.

ecologia trófica; ritmo alimentar diário; peixes de riacho


BIOLOGY

Diet and feeding daily rhythm of Pimelodella lateristriga (Osteichthyes, Siluriformes) in a coastal stream from Serra do Mar – RJ

Dieta e ritmo diário da alimentação de Pimelodella lateristriga (Osteichthyes, Siluriformes) de um riacho costeiroda Serra do Mar - RJ

Mazzoni, R.I, * * e-mail: mazzoni@uerj.br, rir@biologia.ufrj.br ; Moraes, M.I; Rezende, CF.II; Iglesias-Rios, R.III, * * e-mail: mazzoni@uerj.br, rir@biologia.ufrj.br

IDepartamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, Maracanã, CEP 20550-013, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

IIDepartamento de Biologia, Centro de Ciências, Universidade Federal do Ceará – UFC, Campus do Pici, CEP 60455-970, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

IIIDepartamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, CP 68020, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

ABSTRACT

The present study was carried out in Mato Grosso fluvial system, a costal drainage from Serra do Mar. We analysed the diet and the feeding daily rhythm of Pimelodella lateristriga from samples carried out during 24 hours over a 4 hour fishing interval, in June, July and September, 2006 as well as in January and February, 2007. Diet was described from the Feeding Index (IAi) and feeding daily rhythm was verified through the Gut Fullness Index (GFI). Pimelodella lateristriga diet was composed of 37 items, being aquatic insects the most important ones. IAi analysis revealed that Diptera, Trichoptera and Ephemeroptera amounted to 90% of the diet. Autochthonous invertebrates were the most important consumed items. Pimelodella lateristriga concentrated its feeding activities in the nocturnal period (10:00 PM to 2:00 AM) with marked significant differences (F = 16.11; gl = 5; p < 0.05) between each diurnal and nocturnal periods. Between 6:00 AM and 6:00 PM, foraging activity was gradually reduced. We concluded that P. lateristriga has an insectivorous diet and a nocturnal feeding habit with greater activity between 10:00 PM to 2:00 AM.

Keywords: trophic ecology, feeding daily rhythm, stream-dwelling fishes.

RESUMO

O presente estudo foi desenvolvido no sistema fluvial do rio Mato Grosso que compõe uma drenagem costeira da Serra do Mar. Foi analisado o hábito alimentar e o ritmo alimentar diário de Pimelodella lateristriga a partir de amostras obtidas em coletas de 24 horas, com intervalos de 4 horas, em junho-julho-setembro/2006 e janeiro- fevereiro/2007. A dieta foi avaliada a partir do Índice Alimentar (IAi) e o ritmo alimentar diário, com base no Índice de Repleção Estomacal (GFI) dos peixes. A dieta de P. lateristriga foi composta por 37 itens, sendo os insetos aquáticos os mais abundantes. O IAi revelou que Diptera, Trichoptera e Ephemeroptera somaram 90% da dieta, sendo, portanto, os invertebrados autóctones os itens mais consumidos. Pimelodella lateristriga concentrou sua atividade alimentar no período noturno (10:00 até 14:00 horas) com diferenças significativas (F = 16,11; gl = 5; p < 0,05) entre os horários diurnos e noturnos. Entre os horários 6 am e 6 pm a atividade de forrageamento foi gradualmente reduzida. Concluímos que P. lateristriga possui dieta insetívora e ritmo alimentar noturno com pico de atividade entre 10:00 até 14:00 horas.

Palavras-chave: ecologia trófica, ritmo alimentar diário, peixes de riacho.

1. Introduction

According to Wootton (1998), an individual fish is a system that converts food into progeny and occupy virtually every possible trophic role, from herbivorous to secondary and tertiary carnivorous. The knowledge of such position in the trophic structure of a given community is hardly important when environmental management is necessarily or even when theoretical inferences are made for natural systems (Winemiller, 1990). Although morphology can provide circumstantial evidence of the diet of a fish, the inferences must be confirmed by more direct evidence of what is eaten. In this context, the description of food items consumed by any fish species in a community is the starting point to the recognition of a natural trophic structure.

Fishes have quite different feeding habits, as well as different morphologies and feed at any time of day or night depending on food availability, possible competitors and physiological characters (Moyle and Cech, 1996). Biological rhythms are characterised by biochemical, physiological and/or behavioural events that occur in regular intervals. Daily rhythm is regulated by day and night light intensity and is dictated by genetically determined endogenous functions (Menna-Barreto and Fortunato, 1988). It is one of the most important behavioural cycles and acts, mainly, on foraging behaviour (Rabelo and Araújo-Lima, 2002; Gerking, 1994).

Foraging behaviour is also constrained by physiological requirements and the circadian rhythm is one of the most important cues for the daily pattern of foraging (Dill, 1983; Rabelo and Araújo-Lima, 2002). Circadian pattern of activity is among the most conservative behaviour in animals and, in the case of fishes, varies according with taxonomic groups; for example, Characiformes are diurnal species but Siluriformes are crepuscular ones (e.g. Sabino and Castro, 1990; Soares-Porto, 1994).

As most catfish rely on their barbels they do not need light to detect food, so, according to Bolliet et al. (2001), in these cases, feeding behaviour is more dependent on food availability than photoperiod. Nonetheless, records found in the literature state that Siluriform species have nocturnal habits as the food intake rhythm is under endogenous control (Eriksson and Van Veen, 1980; Lowe McConnel, 1987; Boujard et al., 1990; Boujard, 1995; Bolliet et al., 2001). This kind of behaviour was registered in several Pimelodella species, a typical Siluriform from Serra do Mar rivers (Sazima, 1986; Trajano, 1989; Soares-Porto, 1994).

Pimelodella lateristriga (Lichtenstein, 1823), also commonly known as "mandi", "mandi-chorão" and "mandizinho" (Bockmann and Guazelli, 2003), is found in the Atlântico Leste microbasins, between Rio Jequitinhonha and Rio Paraíba do Sul (Menezes et al., 2007), and is one of the most abundant species and of large distribution in the Rio Mato Grosso (unpublished data). In the present work we aimed to describe the diet and feeding daily rhythm of P. lateristriga from Rio Mato Grosso, Saquarema – RJ.

2. Material and Methods

2.1. Study area

The Mato Grosso microbasin (22º55' S and 42º35' W) is a small fluvial system that drains the east watershed of Serra do Mar. Headwaters are located in Serra do Mato Grosso, approximately 800 m high. Mato Grosso stream is a typical Serra do Mar 3rd order stream and is the main water course in that microbasin (Afonso et al., 2000, Barbieri and Coelho-Neto, 1999; Silva-Filho et al., 1999). It flows down through about 11 km, and discharges its waters into the Saquarema lagoon system, located 90 km north of Rio de Janeiro metropolis. Water discharge is seasonally determined by rainfall (~1500 mm yr-1) that is more abundant during summer (November-January) but tropical storms (> 120 mm in a day) occur throughout the year and may increase water level by several-fold but a return to base-flow conditions occur within the same day. Sunlight daily cycle is seasonally determined but, according to its latitudinal position, photoperiod did not vary for more than 3 horas between – June (winter solstice) and February (summer solstice) (see also Mazzoni and Rezende, 2009). The study site was located in the upper Mato Grosso stream (Figure 1) where the canopy and stream surroundings are well preserved. It was a crystal clear waters site with low turbidity, intact canopy, stony river bed presenting riffles and runs.


2.2. Sampling and data analysis

At each sampling month fishes, from a wide range of standard length, were sampled six times, at a 4 hours interval over a 24 hours period (2:00, 6:00, 10:00 AM and 2:00, 6:00, 10:00 PM) on a 150-m-long stream stretch in winter (July/2002 = 11 hours photoperiod) and summer (February 2003 = 13 hours photoperiod) of 2003. Sampling was done by electro fishing (Mazzoni et al., 2000) and was always initiated 30 minutes after sunrise (http://www.cptec.inpe.br/). Fifteen P. lateristriga specimens were sampled during each sampling time. Specimens were immediately fixed in a 10% formalin solution for posterior analysis. Thereafter, in the laboratory, fishes were processed and the following data were obtained: (i) standard length (Ls – cm), (ii) total weight (Wt – gr) e (iii) gut weight (Wg – gr). Guts were fixed in 5% formaldehyde and transferred to 70% alcohol after a 48-hours period.

Guts content, of 358 specimens, were analysed under a stereoscopic microscope throughout the Volumetric (VO) and Frequency of Occurrence (FO) methods (Hynes, 1950; Hyslop, 1980). The relative importance of each food item/category was established according to the Feeding Index (IAi). The IAi consisted of the correlation between FO and VO data as proposed by Kawakami and Vazzoler (1980) and adapted by Hahn et al.(1997) and was applied according to the following model: IAi = (Fi*Vi)/(∑ Fi*Vi)*100, where i = 1, 2, ....n food items; Fi = frequency of occurrence and Vo = volume of a given food item. Feeding items were identified according to the corresponding bibliography (Carvalho, 1989, 1992; Carvalho et al., 2001; Melo, 2003; Olifiers et al., 2004; Salles et al., 2004; Borror and Delong, 2005; Pes et al., 2005; Passos et al., 2007). Diet was defined as the relative importance of each food category (animal vs.vegetal) and origin (autochthonous vs. allochthonous).

Gut fullness Index (GFI) (Santos, 1978; Mazzoni and Rezende, 2009) was determined according to the following model: GFI = 100 Wg Wt-1, where Wg = gut weight and Wt = total weight. Daily activity was estimated as the 24 hours distribution of mean GFI mean values. Normality and homocedasticity premises were verified by the Kolmogorov-Smirnoff and Levine tests, respectively. In order to test the daily variation of food intake, variance analysis (ANOVA) and the pos hoc Tukey test (HSD) were used for the GFI daily variation. Voucher specimens were placed in the ichthyological collection from Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro – MNRJ 29,965, MNRJ 29,972, MNRJ 29,995, MNRJ 30,019, MNRJ 30,020 and MNRJ 30,022.

3. Results

The individuals of Pimelodella lateristriga that had their guts analysed in the present study varied in size from 3.0 to 11.9 cm (Figure 2). Diet was composed of 37 items, being aquatic insects the most important ones. According to IAi, Diptera, Trichoptera and Ephemeroptera totalled 90% of the diet (Table 1). Considering the relative participation of autochthonous vs. allochthonous and animal vs. vegetal items, we found that P. lateristriga diet was mainly based on animal autochthonous items (Table 1).


We did not find significant differences for the GFI of each sampling time between sampling months (p > 0.05) thus, daily feeding activities were based on the grouped data of all sampling months. Feeding activity analyses, based on the average GFI of each sampling period, showed that P. lateristriga concentrated feeding activities in the nocturnal period (10:00 PM to 2:00 AM) with marked significant differences (F = 16.11; gl = 5; p < 0.05) between each sampling time. Between 6 AM and 6 PM the foraging activity was gradually reduced (Figure 3).


4. Discussion

Longitudinal pattern of food availability is the main characteristic that determines a continuous gradient of biological parameters of streams (Vannote et al., 1980) and should be dictated from the production/input of autochthonous and/or allochthonous matter (Minshall, 1996). The amount and quality of organic matter and light availability for photosynthesis are the lotic characteristics strongly dependent from the riparian vegetation (Afonso et al., 2000). Fish communities from opened streams have on autochthonous process, prompted by photosynthesis, its primary food resource (Thorp, 2002; Hein et al., 2003). In opposition, in streams where marginal vegetation is almost abundant, 99% of the energy that flows through food chain constitutes of vegetal matter and terrestrial insects derived from riparian vegetation (Fisher and Likens, 1973; Gregory et al., 1991; Uieda and Kikuchi, 1995).

Such environmental differences are normally reflected in fish diet because species show great flexibility in their trophic ecology (Gerking, 1994). In fact, Pimelodella species have been classified in different trophic categories varying between omnivory, feeding upon autochthonous and allochthonous insects, plant parts (Viana et al., 2006) and scales (Costa, 1987) and insectivory, feeding exclusively upon insects (Soares-Porto, 1994; Casatti et al., 2001; Mazzoni and Costa, 2007). These results were obtained from studies developed in 1st and 2nd order streams where environmental parameters are very important for biological processes. In rivers, up to 3rd order, environmental variables are more stable and biological responses, mainly feeding habits, are less dependent on local characteristics.

Pimelodella lateristriga from the Rio Mato Grosso system fed on aquatic (autochthonous) and terrestrial allochthonous insects and presented occasional consumption of vegetal items. Although the species consumed a high number of prey, their diet was largely based on autochthonous resources, mainly Diptera and Ephemeroptera. The consumption of allochthonous vs.autochthonous, bentonic vs.nektonic feeding behaviour were recurrently registered in the literature on Pimelodella species (e.g.Mazzoni and Costa, 2007; Casatti et al., 2001). All of those mentioned differences in the feeding behaviour of Pimelodella species reflected local differences. The study site of the present study was an opened area where autochthonous processes probably superimposed the allochthonous ones. These determined that food availability was based on aquatic insects, adults and larvaes, both dependent on the autochthonous primary production. Thus, following statements from the literature we conclude that food items used by the studied population were largely dependent on autochthonous processes.

In most cases, daily rhythm of feeding activity is related to prey detection. Among visual predators prey consumption decreases under low light conditions, but this does not occur among non-visual predators (Hyatt, 1979). Bolliet et al. (2001) stated that among catfish, as barbels are the main food searching system, food availability is more important than the photoperiod. In the present study we verified low feeding activity during the day, but it is a consistent nocturnal habit. Nonetheless, in most studies on Siluriform species, daily rhythms have shown a nocturnal feeding habit (Lowe McConnell, 1987; Sazima, 1986; Trajano, 1989; Soares-Porto, 1994), however, diurnal habits have also been recorded for some Pimelodidae species (Lolis and Andrian, 1996).

According to Ross (1986) the factors that generate such feeding patterns during the nocturnal period might be related to several factors, such as morphological or philogenetical relationships (Ross, 1986) and this statement explains, up to a certain point, the high incidence of nocturnal feeding habit among Siluriforms. Future research involving morphological variables together with resource availability might be important to explain the result of the foraging habits observed in our study for such species and perhaps to test Bolliet et al. (2001) proposal.

Acknowledgements — We thank the staff of the Laboratório de Ecologia de Peixes from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro for helping in the fieldwork and to FAPERJ/APQ1/E-26/171.555-00 for the financial support.

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VANNOTE, RL., MINSHALL, GW., CUMMINS, KW., SEDELL, JR. and CUSHING, CE., 1980. The river continuum concept. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, vol. 37, no. 1, p. 130-137.

VIANA, LF., SANTOS, SL. and LIMA-JÚNIOR, SE., 2006. Variação sazonal na alimentação de Pimelodella cf. gracilis (Osteichthyes, Siluriformes, Pimelodidae) no rio Amambaí, Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul. Acta Scientiarum Biological Sciences, vol. 28, no. 2, p. 123-128.

WINEMILLER, KO., 1990. Spatial and temporal variation in tropical fish trophic networks. Ecological Monographs, vol. 60, no. 3, p. 331-367.

WOOTTON, RJ., 1998. Ecology of teleost fishes. London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 386 p.

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