Feeding ecology of two high-order predators from south-eastern Australia: The coastal broadnose and the deepwater sharpnose sevengill sharks

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 371, Issue , 2008, Pages 273-284

  Braccini, J Matías ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cow sharks; Feeding ecology; Heptranchias perlo; Hexanchidae; Notorynchus cepedianus; Shark; Top predator

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATER; FEEDING ECOLOGY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY CAPTURE; PREY PREFERENCE; SHARK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TELEOST; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

CEPHALOPODA; CHONDRICHTHYES; GEMPYLIDAE; HEPTRANCHIAS PERLO; HEXANCHIDAE; LEPIDORHYNCHUS DENTICULATUS; MUSTELUS ANTARCTICUS; NOTORYNCHIDAE; NOTORYNCHUS CEPEDIANUS; OMMASTREPHIDAE; TELEOSTEI; TRICHIURIDAE;

EID: 57849146086     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07684     Document Type: Article

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