Ecology Summary - Pisodonophis boro

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Main Ref.	Rainboth, W.J., 1996
Remarks	Reported to spawn in rice-paddies during the rainy season (Ref. 12693). In India, this species burrows into and through the embankments of paddy fields and salt pans near estuaries. The paddy fields are damaged by the burrows allowing salt water to enter and the crops to wither. It prefers a substrate which consist of a good mixture of sand, silt, and clay. It shows a tidal locomotory rhythm. It comes to the surface of the mud at high tide to feed, when some degree of exposure to the overlying water may occur (Ref. 42330).

Main Ref.

Rainboth, W.J., 1996

Remarks

Reported to spawn in rice-paddies during the rainy season (Ref. 12693). In India, this species burrows into and through the embankments of paddy fields and salt pans near estuaries. The paddy fields are damaged by the burrows allowing salt water to enter and the crops to wither. It prefers a substrate which consist of a good mixture of sand, silt, and clay. It shows a tidal locomotory rhythm. It comes to the surface of the mud at high tide to feed, when some degree of exposure to the overlying water may occur (Ref. 42330).

Aquatic zones / Water bodies

	Marine - Neritic	Marine - Oceanic	Brackishwater	Freshwater
Marine zones / Brackish and freshwater bodies	supra-littoral zone littoral zone sublittoral zone	epipelagic mesopelagic epipelagic abyssopelagic hadopelagic	estuaries/lagoons/brackish seas mangroves marshes/swamps	rivers/streams lakes/ponds caves exclusively in caves

Highighted items on the list are where Pisodonophis boro may be found.

Habitat

Substrate	Benthic;
Substrate Ref.	Hoese, D.F., D.J. Bray, J.R. Paxton and G.R. Allen, 2006
Special habitats
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Associations

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Parasitism

Feeding

Feeding type	mainly animals (troph. 2.8 and up)
Feeding type Ref.	Rainboth, W.J., 1996
Feeding habit	hunting macrofauna (predator)
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Trophic Level(s)

Estimation method	Original sample		Unfished population		Remark
Estimation method	Troph	s.e.	Troph	s.e.	Remark
From diet composition
From individual food items	4.03	0.71			Trophic level estimated from a number of food items using a randomized resampling routine.
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