A STUDY OF MORPHOMETRIC VARIATIONS, CONDITION FACTOR AND LENGTH-WEIGHT RELATIONSHIPS OF 3 CLARIID CATFISH SPECIES OF THEAMALO STREAM, KENYA

Table of Content ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

List of Tables

Chapter One

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Problem of statement

1.3 Justification of the study

1.5 Objectives

1.6 Hypothesis

Chapter Two

2.0 Literature Review

2.1 Morphometric variations of catfish species

2.2 Length- weight relationship of Clariid family

2.3 Condition factor of Clarias

3.0 Chapter three

3.1 Materials and methods

4a) Study area

4b) Sample collection

3.2 Data analysis

20a) Morphometric variations among three C. Liocephalus, C. gariepinus, and C. alluaudispecies

21b) Length-weight relationship of C. liocephalus, C. gariepinus, and C. alluaudi

33c) Condition factor for C.liocephalus, C.gariepinus, and C. alluaudi

CHAPTER FIVE

Discussion

Conclusion

Recommendations

References

List of Tables

Table 1: Morphological distinction of Clarias species from Asi, Ceyhan, Seyhan, Goksu, Aksu and Sakarya in Mexico (Camel et al, 2005)

Table 2: Morphological distinction of Clarias species from Asi, Ceyhan, Seyhan, Goksu, Aksu and Sakarya in Mexico (Camel et al, 2005)

Table 3: morphological distinction of Clarias species from Asi, Ceyhan, Seyhan, Goksu, Aksu and Sakarya in mexico (Camel et al, 2005)

Table 4: length-weight relationship and condition factor of Clariid species by (silvester et al, 2014)

Table 5: Description of morphometric measurements

Table 6: Descriptive statistics of morphometric measurements

Table 7: Eigen values and percentage variance for the different components of the PCA

Table 9: Relative condition factors of three Clariid species found using the formula (Kn=100W/Lb)

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