Diet and diel feeding periodicity of juvenile scalloped hammerhead sharks, Sphyrna lewini, in Kāne'ohe Bay, Ō'ahu, Hawai'i

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-11

  Bush, Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Elasmobranch; Feeding analysis; Food habits; Foraging; Neonatal; Nursery area

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; JUVENILE; SHARK;

UNITED STATES;

CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; CHONDRICHTHYES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GOBIIDAE; JOINVILLEA ASCENDENS; SPHYRNA; SPHYRNA LEWINI; SPHYRNIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037703593     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024438706814     Document Type: Article

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