Food and Feeding Habits Summary - Globicephala melas

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Food and Feeding Habits Summary Globicephala melas

Main Ref.	Santos, M.B., S.S. Monteiro, J.V. Vingada, M. Ferreira, A. López, J. Martínez Cedeira, A., R.J. Reid, A. Brownlow and G.J. Pierce, 2014
Fish stage	juv./adults	Mean length	384.00 CL
Sample size	6	Percent empty
Country	Portugal	Locality
Period	January February March April May June July August September October November December Highlighted items on the list are known Feeding Periods of Globicephala melas

Diet percent	Food I	Food II	Food III	Prey stage	Item Name	Comments
0.40 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Sepia sp.
0.10 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Gonatus sp.
0.30 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Histioteuthis reversa
0.30 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Histioteuthis sp.
4.59 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Ommastrephidae	Illex/Todaropsis
52.89 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Todarodes sagitattus
0.30 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Chiroteuthis veranii
1.10 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Chiroteuthis sp.
0.10 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Teuthowenia megalops
38.52 %	zoobenthos	mollusks	octopi	juv./adults	Eledone cirrhosa
1.40 %	zoobenthos	mollusks	octopi	juv./adults	Octopus vulgaris