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Trophic ecology of the deep-sea fish Malacosteus niger (Pisces:Stomiidae):An enigmatic feeding ecology to facilitate a unique visual system?

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2005
Title: Trophic ecology of the deep-sea fish Malacosteus niger (Pisces:Stomiidae):An enigmatic feeding ecology to facilitate a unique visual system?.
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Name(s): Sutton, Tracey T., creator
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Issuance: single unit
Date Issued: 2005
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
Extent: 13 p.
Physical Description: pdf
Language(s): English
Identifier: 2827835 (digitool), FADT2827835 (IID), fau:5572 (fedora), 10.1016/j.dsr.2005.06.011 (doi)
Note(s): A two-part theory is presented to explain why M. niger radically diverges from its clade and preys on food it does not appear morphologically suited to eat:(1) the combination of long-wave bioluminescence and vision systems suggests that M. niger may search small volumes for food, and thus may sustain itself energetically by snacking on small parcels of food (copepods) in between rare encounters with large prey, and (2) M. niger may gain the raw material for its long-wave visual sensitivity, and thus its feeding mode, from the consumption of copepods.
This is the author’s version of a work accepted for publication by Elsevier. Changes resulting from the publishing process, including peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting and other quality control mechanisms, may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. The definitive version has been published at http://www.elsevier.com/dsr and may be cited as Sutton, Tracey T. (2005) Trophic ecology of the deep‐sea fish Malacosteus niger (Pisces:Stomiidae): An enigmatic feeding ecology to facilitate a unique visual system? Deep-Sea Research I 52:2065–2076 doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2005.06.011
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1606.
Marine zooplankton.
Subject(s): Stomiidae
Fishes --Research
Deep-sea fisheries
Copepoda
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Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2005.06.011
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Host Institution: FAU
Other Version: This is the author’s version of a work accepted for publication by Elsevier. Changes resulting from the publishing process, including peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting and other quality control mechanisms, may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. The definitive version has been published at http://www.elsevier.com/dsr and may be cited as Sutton, Tracey T. (2005) Trophic ecology of the deep‐sea fish Malacosteus niger (Pisces:Stomiidae): An enigmatic feeding ecology to facilitate a unique visual system? Deep-Sea Research I 52:2065–2076 doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2005.06.011.