Feeding ecology of demersal elasmobranchs from the shelf and slope off the balearic sea (western mediterranean);Ecología alimentaria de elasmobranquios demersales de plataforma y talud en aguas de las islas baleares (mediterráneo occidental)

Scientia Marina

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 633-639

  Valls, Maria ^a   Quetglas, Antoni ^a   Ordines, Francesc ^a   Moranta, Joan ^a  

^a Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares   (Spain)

Author keywords

Batoid; Diet overlap; Elasmobranch; Feeding habits; Mediterranean; Niche breadth; Shark

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEMERSAL FISH; DIET; DIETARY OVERLAP; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; NICHE BREADTH; TELEOST;

BALEARIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BATOIDEA; CEPHALOPODA; CHONDRICHTHYES; CRUSTACEA; ELASMOBRANCHII; ETMOPTERUS SPINAX; EUPHAUSIACEA; EUPHAUSIIDAE; GALEUS MELASTOMUS; LEUCORAJA NAEVUS; MYLIOBATIS AQUILA; NATANTIA; RAJA POLYSTIGMA; RAJIDAE; REPTANTIA; SCYLIORHINUS CANICULA; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 80855164671     PISSN: 02148358     EISSN: 18868134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3989/scimar.2011.75n4633     Document Type: Article

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