LIU Pan, DAI Xiaojie, WANG Jie, GAO Chunxia, WU Feng, WANG Xuefang. Composition of stomach contents of longnose lancetfish (Alepisaurus ferox) in western tropical Pacific Ocean[J]. South China Fisheries Science, 2019, 15(1): 20-30. DOI: 10.12131/20180141
Citation: LIU Pan, DAI Xiaojie, WANG Jie, GAO Chunxia, WU Feng, WANG Xuefang. Composition of stomach contents of longnose lancetfish (Alepisaurus ferox) in western tropical Pacific Ocean[J]. South China Fisheries Science, 2019, 15(1): 20-30. DOI: 10.12131/20180141

Composition of stomach contents of longnose lancetfish (Alepisaurus ferox) in western tropical Pacific Ocean

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  • Received Date: June 24, 2018
  • Revised Date: August 15, 2018
  • Accepted Date: October 22, 2018
  • Available Online: December 13, 2018
  • We investigated the composition of the stomach contents of 138 longnose lancetfish (Alepisaurus ferox) collected from September 2017 to January 2018 by the Chinese Longline Fisheries Observer Programme in the western tropical Pacific Ocean (165°45′E−178°00′W, 03°02′S−18°34′S). A total of 61 species from 44 families, belonging to six prey groups (Fish, Mollusca, Crustacea, Polychaeta, Cnidaria and Thaliacea) were identified. Cannibalism and plastic debris ingestion were also observed. The obtained values of Shannon-Wiener diversity index (H'), Pielou evenness index (J') and dominance index (D) of A. ferox's diet composition were 2.71, 0.67 and 0.12, respectively. The result of index of relative importance (IRI) analysis indicates that Mollusca was the dominant prey with IRI of 7 573.31 which accounted for 53.11% of total IRI. At family level, Sternoptychidae, Alepisauridae, Carinariidae, Pterotracheidae, Bolitaenidae, Onychoteuthidae, Oplophoridae, Platyscelidae, Eurytheneidae and Alciopidae were the most important preys of A. ferox.

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