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Evidence for feeding on seabirds by the Southern Ocean ommastrephid squid Todarodes filippovae
Citation
Jackson, GD and Pethybridge, HR and Virtue, P, Evidence for feeding on seabirds by the Southern Ocean ommastrephid squid Todarodes filippovae, American Malacological Bulletin, 38, (2) pp. 98-101. ISSN 0740-2783 (2021) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
A unique and rare event of consumption of a seabird (aviphagy) was recorded for a Southern Ocean squid in Australian waters.
Petrel remains were identified in the stomach contents of a large (518 mm Mantle Length, 3.4 kg) female ommastrephid squid, Todarodes
filippovae (Adam 1975) captured off the southern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The remains were identified as to being from either a fairy
prion Pachyptila turtur or white-faced storm petrel Pelagodroma marina. This unique observation expands the evidence for aviphagy recorded
in other cephalopods to now include squid.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | seabirds, Southern Ocean, ommastrephid squid, Todarodes filippova, aviphagy, predation, petrel, stomach contentse |
| Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
| Research Group: | Ecology |
| Research Field: | Ecology not elsewhere classified |
| Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
| Objective Group: | Other environmental management |
| Objective Field: | Other environmental management not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Virtue, P (Associate Professor Patti Virtue) |
| ID Code: | 142561 |
| Year Published: | 2021 |
| Deposited By: | Ecology and Biodiversity |
| Deposited On: | 2021-01-26 |
| Last Modified: | 2021-01-27 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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