Diet of Pacific sleeper shark, Somniosus pacificus, in the the Gulf of Alaska

The sleeper shark, Somniosus pacificus, ranges from Chile (Crovetto et al., 1992) through southern California (Phillips,1953), British Columbia to the Gulf of Alaska (Bright,1959), the Bering Sea (Wilimovsky,1954), and Japan (Tanaka et al.,1982). It is thought to be a voracious and versatile feeder...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yang, Mei-Sun, Page, Benjamin N.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: NOAA 1999
Subjects:
Bering Sea
Gulf of Alaska
Pacific
harbor seal
Phoca vitulina
Southern Right Whale
Alaska
Online Access:https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/52941/
https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/52941/1/3706.pdf
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Summary:The sleeper shark, Somniosus pacificus, ranges from Chile (Crovetto et al., 1992) through southern California (Phillips,1953), British Columbia to the Gulf of Alaska (Bright,1959), the Bering Sea (Wilimovsky,1954), and Japan (Tanaka et al.,1982). It is thought to be a voracious and versatile feeder and its diet has been shown to include young marine mammals, such as harbor seal, Phoca vitulina (Bright,1959), and the southern right whale dolphin, Lissodelphis peronii, (Crovetto et al.,1992). The purpose of this study is to describe the diet of the sleeper shark in the Gulf of Alaska area.

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