A REVIEW OF THE DIET AND ECOLOGY OF THE LONGNOSE VELVET DOGFISH CENTROSCYMNUS CREPIDATER (CHONDRICHTHYES: SOMNIOSIDAE) POPULATION IN THE ROCKALL TROUGH (NORTH-EAST ATLANTIC) AND AN ANALYSIS OF INTRA-POPULATION DIETARY VARIATION

• Main Author: Cronin, Elizabeth
• Other Authors: Faculty of Science
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Plymouth 2007
• Subjects: Rockall Trough; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10026.2/1025

The re-examination of the diet of the potentially vulnerable squalid Centroscymnus crepidater in the Rockall Trough region of the NE Atlantic has been conducted. The main prey types consumed have varied little temporally with a large importance of teleosts (particularly myctophids) and cephalopods....