Food capture kinematics in the deep-water chain catshark Scyliorhinus retifer

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1277-1286

  Ajemian, Matthew J ^a   Sanford, Christopher P ^a  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; KINEMATICS; SHARK; SIZE EFFECT; SUCTION;

CARCHARHINIFORMES; CEPHALOSCYLLIUM VENTRIOSUM; CHONDRICHTHYES; ELASMOBRANCHII; SCYLIORHINIDAE; SCYLIORHINUS RETIFER;

EID: 35348967900     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407055701     Document Type: Article

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