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Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 01 Aug 2000
Hydrothermal Vent Mussel Bathymodiolus sp. (Mollusca: Mytilidae): Diet Item of Hydrolagus affinis (Pisces: Chimaeridae)
Hydrothermal Vent Mussel Bathymodiolus sp. (Mollusca: Mytilidae): Diet Item of Hydrolagus affinis (Pisces: Chimaeridae)
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Two Hydrolagus affinis caught off Azores (Lucky Strike vent field) were identified as consumers of the hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus sp. It is the first notice of a vertebrate feeding on this endemic mytilid species.Abstract
Copyright: The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Fig. 1.
Stomach contents of Hydrolagus affinis (male, 101 cm TL) comprising shell and undigested body of a Bathymodiolus sp. (66 mm shell length specimen). Undigested body, byssal threads and mucus (upper left). The inside of the shell still showing the adductor muscle (right side, middle)
Accepted: 12 Nov 1999