Diet and metazoan parasites of juvenile and subadult silver scabbard fish, Lepidopus caudatus, from the Great Meteor Seamount (North Atlantic)

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Klimpel, Sven, Rückert, Sonja, Piatkowski, Uwe, Palm, Harry W., Hanel, Reinhold
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Inter Research 2006
• Subjects: Meteor Seamount; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/8157/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/8157/1/m315p249.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3354/meps315249

Silver scabbard fish Lepidopus caudatus (Euphrasen, 1788) (Trichiuridae) from the Great Meteor Seamount (GMS) in the central eastern Atlantic were studied for diet composition and metazoan parasites. A total of 36 specimens with lengths between 39.1 and 52.2 cm were sampled, which had taken 14 diffe...