Predation on cephalopods by the giant red shrimp Aristaeomorpha foliacea

Autor: Carlo Pipitone, Giambattista Bello
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
82 (2002): 213–218. doi:10.1017/S0025315402005386
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Bello G.; Pipitone C./titolo:Predation on cephalopods by the giant red shrimp Aristaeomorpha foliacea/doi:10.1017%2FS0025315402005386/rivista:Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (Print)/anno:2002/pagina_da:213/pagina_a:218/intervallo_pagine:213–218/volume:82
ISSN: 1469-7769
0025-3154
DOI: 10.1017/s0025315402005386
Popis: The stomachs of 427 giant red shrimps, Aristaeomorpha foliacea, caught in the Strait of Sicily (Mediterranean Sea) during four seasonal surveys contained 73 cephalopods, or 8·6% of prey. Cephalopods ranked third as prey following crustaceans (49·2% of prey) and bony fish (20·5% of prey). The following cephalopod taxa were identified: Heteroteuthis dispar, Sepietta oweniana, Brachioteuthis sp., Abraliopsis morisii, Onychoteuthis banksii, Ancistroteuthis lichtensteinii, Histioteuthis bonnellii, H. reversa, Taoniinae sp., Octopodidae sp.; the dominant species was Heteroteuthis dispar (13 specimens). All remains pertained to small and very small specimens, including early juveniles; rostral length of 13 beaks (=17·8% of cephalopods) measured
Databáze: OpenAIRE