Black Carp Mylopharyngodon piceus (Richardson, 1846) Mouth Gape and Size Preference of a Bivalve Prey

Figure 1

The regression of total length (TL) and mouth gape (MG) for black carp Mylopharyngodon piceus fitted from wild-caught fish in the species’ current range of the Mississippi River Basin (solid line) and a subset of 40 black carp <400 mm TL of aquaculture origin because of limited wild collections in that size range. The extrapolated regression from Nico et al. [19] is plotted as a dotted line. The extrapolated regression from Shelton et al. [18] is plotted as a dashed line.