The Food of the Dogfish, Scyliorhinus Caniculus L.
- 1 December 1949
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 28 (3) , 791-793
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400023584
Abstract
During the past eight years records have been kept of the contents of the stomachs of all dogfish dissected in the Zoology Department of Reading University. The specimens, numbering about 450 altogether, came from Swansea Docks, and were caught off the west coasts of the British Isles. Students were asked to spread out the contents of the stomach of the fish they were dissecting in a dish, and to make notes of those animals they could identify. I then, as far as was possible, checked the identifications, and removed for more detailed investigation any specimens of particular interest. In the circumstances it was impossible to make accurate numerical records of each species, or to work out fragments from partially digested material, but the rare specimens were recorded by numbers. Sometimes a record of one means one perfect specimen.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- A Contribution to Our Knowledge of the Life-Histories of the Dogfishes Landed at PlymouthJournal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 1921