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 none
Sample size	32	Percent empty
Country	Spain	Locality	Galicia
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
0.20 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Sepia sp.
0.20 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Gonatus sp.
0.40 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Lepidoteuthis rimaldii
0.20 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Histioteuthis reversa
0.10 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Histioteuthis sp.
14.43 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Ommastrephidae	Illex /Todaropsis
5.31 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Todarodes sagitattus
0.10 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Chiroteuthis veranii
0.30 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Teuthowenia megalops
0.20 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Haliphron atlanticus
58.72 %	zoobenthos	mollusks	octopi	juv./adults	Eledone cirrhosa
19.74 %	zoobenthos	mollusks	octopi	juv./adults	Octopus vulgaris
0.10 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Merlucius merlucius