NOTE Food and Ontogenetic Shifts in Feeding

Food habits were studied in goosefish, Lophius americanus, collected off southern New England in the western North Atlantic. Analysis of stomach contents indicated goosefish fed opportunistically on a wide variety of species, primarily fishes. Invertebrates were im-portant in the diet of small (<...

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Main Authors: Of The Goosefish, Lophius Americanus, Michael P. Armstrong, John A. Musick, James A. Colvocoresses
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
Schroeder
1953
Scott and Scott
1988). It is closely
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.594.9796
http://journal.nafo.int/J18/armstrong.pdf
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Summary:Food habits were studied in goosefish, Lophius americanus, collected off southern New England in the western North Atlantic. Analysis of stomach contents indicated goosefish fed opportunistically on a wide variety of species, primarily fishes. Invertebrates were im-portant in the diet of small (<200 mm total length) goosefish but larger goosefish fed almost exclusively on fishes. In larger goosefish a high incidence of empty stomachs was found, suggesting a low frequency of feeding. Conspecifics were a relatively important prey of larger goosefish.

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