Phosphatase Producing Microbes Associated with Fish and Shellfish in Trivandrum Coast
Phosphatase Producing Microbes Associated with Fish and Shellfish in Trivandrum Coast
Date
1993
Authors
Eapen, Alex
Maya, K
Dhevendaran, K
Natarajan, P
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Publisher
Society of Fisheries Technologists (India) Cochin
Abstract
Total heterotrophic bacteria and fungi and the phosphatase producing bacteria and
fungi in the gill, guts and muscle of fish (£troplus spp., Gem~s sp. and Glossogobius sp.)
and viscera and man.tle of shellfish (Vellorita sp. and Perna sp.) were studied. The
hydrographic parameters of the environment from where the fishes were caught were
also studied. Except shellfish Perna indica, all the species studk'<l harboured phosphatase
producing bacteria. The gut portion of finfish contained high amount of total heterotrophic
as well as phosphatase producing bacteria. The present study showed that the phosphatase
producing bacteria mainly belonged to Bacillus, Vibrio, Micrococcus and Corynebacterium
spp. Moraxella showed maximum growth at 5% salt concentration. Moraxella and Aeromonas
were sensitive towards mercury while 45% of Vibrio showed growth at 0.4 ppm mercury.
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Keywords
Phosphatase Producing Microbes, Associated, Fish, Shellfish,Trivandrum Coast
Citation
Fishery Tech 30(1):62-66