Diet of two icefish species from the South Shetland Islands and Elephant Island, Champsocephalus gunnari and Chaenocephalus aceratus

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Flores, H., Kock, K.-H., Wilhelms, S., Jones, C. D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Elephant Island; South Shetland Islands; Euphausia superba; Icefish; Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/31535/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-003-0570-4; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.40754

The summer diet of two species of icefishes (Channichthyidae) from the South Shetland Islands and Elephant Island, Champsocephalus gunnari and Chaenocephalus aceratus, was investigated from 2001 to 2003. Champsocephalus gunnari fed almost exclusively on krill (Euphausia superba) in all years. The im...