Food and Inferred Feeding Behavior of Northern Sand Lance ( Ammodytes dubius )
Gut contents of northern sand lance (Ammodytes dubius) were identified, measured by volume, and compared to volumetric analyses of plankton hauls. A. dubius is a plankton feeder, copepods (mainly Calanus finmarchicus) constituting about 65% of its food by volume. It combines filter feeding with sele...
| Published in: | Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Canadian Science Publishing
1973
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f73-075 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f73-075 |
| Summary: | Gut contents of northern sand lance (Ammodytes dubius) were identified, measured by volume, and compared to volumetric analyses of plankton hauls. A. dubius is a plankton feeder, copepods (mainly Calanus finmarchicus) constituting about 65% of its food by volume. It combines filter feeding with selective feeding on larger food items such as euphausiids and fish larvae. |
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