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Diet and reproduction in the Australian butterfly ray Gymnura australis from northern and north-eastern Australia

Journal

JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY
Volume 75, Issue 10, Pages 2475-2489

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02432.x

Keywords

biology; feeding behaviour; growth rates; teleost specialist

Funding

  1. Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) Reef Research Centre
  2. Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
  3. National Oceans Office (NOO)
  4. Torres Strait Mapping and Characterisation Project
  5. CRC Torres Strait

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The diet of Gymnura australis was dominated by teleosts (99.8% index of relative importance). A wide-ranging species, females matured at 446 mm disc width (W-D), had a single functional ovary and two functional uteri. Males matured at 377 mm W-D and had a single functional testis. (C) 2009 The Authors Journal compilation (C) 2009 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles

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