Food and Feeding Habits: Diet Composition Squalus acanthias
n = 14
Main Food Percent
Trophic Level
(y)
Predator Life Stage Country Locality Ref.
nekton 42 3.9 juv./adults - Not stated. 33559
nekton 83 4.4 juv./adults - Northeastern Atlantic, 1981-1985 28070
nekton 86 4.5 juv./adults - west coast of southern Africa 12473
nekton 73 4.3 juv./adults USA Middle Atlantic 37512
nekton 93 4.5 adults USA Inshore South of Cape Hatteras. 37512
nekton 61 4.3 adults USA Inshore North of Cape Hatteras. 37512
nekton 56 4.3 juv./adults USA Southern New England. 37512
nekton 50 4.4 juv./adults USA Georges Bank 37512
nekton 41 4.5 juv./adults USA Gulf of Maine 37512
detritus 43 4.6 juv./adults USA Scotian Shelf 37512
nekton 92 4.5 juv./adults Japan 120 and 140 m off the Pacific coast of Iwate Perfecture. 57119
nekton 86 4.5 juv./adults Turkey SE Black Sea, (40°15' - 40°38'E, 40°57' - 41°04'N) 83357
zoobenthos 85 4.6 juv./adults - northwest Mediterranean 106518
nekton 44 4.5 juv./adults Turkey Southeast Black Sea 121381
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