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PLANKTON & BENTHOS RESEARCH
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 41-45Publisher
PLANKTON SOC JAPAN
DOI: 10.3800/pbr.13.41
Keywords
Izu-Ogasawara Islands; mesopelagic; piscivorous; Solmissus incisa; stomach contents
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- Japan Society of the Promotion of Science [24248032, 26304030, 23405031]
- Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP) for the Development of New-generation Research Protocols for Submarine Resources
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23405031] Funding Source: KAKEN
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An individual narcomedusa assignable to Solmissus incisa sensu lato was observed having ingested a fish at 573 m depth near the southeast slope of the Kaikata seamount, Japan. Solmissus is a very common deep-sea narco-medusan genus that is widely considered to be a predator specializing on gelatinous plankton. Several cryptic species, with differences in the number of tentacles and form of manubrial pouches, are thought to be included in the nominal species Solmissus incisa. Therefore, the present study gives a short description of the morphotype of Sohnissus incisa s.l. observed with a fish in its stomach, as well as several individuals of the same morphotype that had ingested gelatinous prey.
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