Sharks that eat sharks: Opportunistic predation by wobbegongs

Coral Reefs

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 471-

  Ceccarelli, D M ^a,b   Williamson, D H ^a  

^a Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL; CORAL REEF; FEEDING; PREDATION; SHARK;

CHONDRICHTHYES; ORECTOLOBIDAE;

EID: 84860359928     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-012-0878-z     Document Type: Article

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2. Huveneers C, Otway NM, Gibbs SE, Harcourt RG (2007) Quantitative diet assessment of wobbegong sharks (genus Orectolobus) in New South Wales, Australia. ICES Journal of Marine Science 64: 1272-1281.
3. Wilga CD, Motta PJ, Sanford CP (2007) Evolution and ecology of feeding in elasmobranchs. Integrative and Comparative Biology 41: 55-69.