Dear All,
Apologies for cross posting.
We would like to inform you that the new paper on stomach contents of striped dolphins has been published in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
The pdf copy is available online via the following link.
Dede, A., Salman, A., Tonay, A.M. 2015. Stomach contents of by-caught striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. doi:10.1017/S0025315415001538
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315415001538
Abstract
Stomach contents of six striped dolphins taken as by-catch in the swordfish fishery in the eastern Mediterranean Sea off the Turkish coast were examined. In total, 29 taxa were identified to species or family and 1777 individual food items (1394 bony fishes, 289 cephalopods, 94 crustaceans) were counted. Diaphus spp. and Ceratoscopelus maderensis were the most remarkable ones, as they accounted for 70.45% of the total number of fishes. Onychoteuthis banksii, on the other hand, was the only cephalopod species found in all stomach content analyses and represented 38.06% of the total number of cephalopods. Bony fish species: Myctophum punctatum, Notoscopelus elongatus, Electrona risso, Sudis hyalina, Moridae sp., Phycidae sp., Sternoptychidae sp. and cephalopods: Pterygioteuthis giardi and Chtenopteryx sicula were reported the first time in the stomach contents of striped dolphin in the Mediterranean Sea.
Alternatively, pdf requests can be sent to atonay@istanbul.edu.tr
Regards
Arda
Arda M. TONAY Ph.D
Faculty of Fisheries, İstanbul University
Marine Biology Dep.
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