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Arctic skate Amblyraja hyperborea preys on remarkably large glacial eelpouts Lycodes frigidus
Author(s) -
Byrkjedal I.,
Christiansen J. S.,
Karamushko O. V.,
Langhelle G.,
Lynghammar A.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/jfb.12554
Subject(s) - biology , skate , glacial period , arctic , predation , fishery , the arctic , ecology , oceanography , paleontology , geology
During scientific surveys on the continental slopes north‐west of Spitsbergen and off north‐east Greenland ( c. 600 and 1000 m depths), two female Arctic skates Amblyraja hyperborea were caught while swallowing extraordinary large individuals of glacial eelpout Lycodes frigidus . The total length ( L T ) of the prey constituted 50 and 80% of the L T of the skates, which reveal that A. hyperborea are capable predators of fishes of surprisingly large relative size.