Cephalopods Eaten by the Butterfly Kingfish Gasterochisma melampus in the Eastern South Pacific Ocean

Kotaro TSUCHIYA; Shiro SAWADAISHI

doi:10.18941/venusjjm.56.1_49

Venus (Japanese Journal of Malacology)

Online ISSN : 2432-9967
Print ISSN : 0042-3580
ISSN-L : 0042-3580

Cephalopods Eaten by the Butterfly Kingfish Gasterochisma melampus in the Eastern South Pacific Ocean

Kotaro TSUCHIYA, Shiro SAWADAISHI

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Keywords: Cephalopoda, South Pacific, Gasterochisma melampus, Diet, Chiroteuthids, Bolitaena macrocotyla

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1997 Volume 56 Issue 1 Pages 49-59

DOI https://doi.org/10.18941/venusjjm.56.1_49

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Abstract

The cephalopods removed from 16 stomachs of Gasterochisma melampus collected in the eastern South Pacific were examined. Sixteen species of 12 families were identified from the materials, the most of which were mesopelagic species. A chiroteuthid squid Planktoteuthis oligobessa was newly recorded from the South Pacific. Almost of all species were common to the California Current fauna.

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