Food and feeding habits of the blue shark Prionace glauca caught off Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, with a review on its feeding

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 977-994

  Markaida, Unai ^a,b   Sosa Nishizaki, Oscar ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Baja California; blue shark; feeding habits; mesopelagic cephalopods; Pleuroncodes planipes; Prionace glauca; shark trophic studies; stomach contents

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPOD; CRAB; MESOPELAGIC ZONE; OVERFISHING; SCAVENGING (FEEDING); SHARK; STOMACH CONTENT; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TODOS SANTOS BAY;

AMNIOTA; ARCHITEUTHIS SP.; ARGONAUTA; CEPHALOPODA; CHONDRICHTHYES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GONATUS CALIFORNIENSIS; HISTIOTEUTHIS HETEROPSIS; PLEURONCODES PLANIPES; PRIONACE GLAUCA; TELEOSTEI; VAMPYROTEUTHIS INFERNALIS;

EID: 77958479324     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315409991597     Document Type: Review

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