Research Article
Histomorphological Description of the Digestive System of Pebbly Fish, Alestes baremoze (Joannis, 1835)
Table 1
Relative gut length of A. baremoze collected from Lake Albert, Uganda.
| Month | Average body length (cm) | Average gut length (cm) | Sample number | Average relative gut length |
| April | 42.5 | 53.8 | 10 | 1.3 | May | 42.5 | 51.1 | 20 | 1.2 | June | 42 | 49.7 | 10 | 1.2 | July | 37.7 | 51.9 | 5 | 1.4 | August | 39.5 | 53.3 | 7 | 1.3 | September | 41.8 | 46.3 | 11 | 1.1 | October | 38.8 | 47.1 | 8 | 1.2 | November | 42.5 | 49.8 | 10 | 1.2 | December | 40.3 | 50 | 9 | 1.2 |
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Average RGL for all samples (April to December) = 1.2 ± 0.085.
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