Some 290 species of squids comprise the order Teuthida that belongs to the molluscan
Class Cephalopoda. Of these, about 30–40 squid species have substantial commercial …

Abstract “Deep-sea” cephalopods are here defined as cephalopods that spend a significant
part of their life cycles outside the euphotic zone. In this chapter, the state of knowledge in …

The stomach contents of 16 bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus (Cetacea: Odontoceti)
stranded in the Spanish Mediterranean coast were examined. Remains and size of prey …

We synthesized available information from ecological models at local and regional scales to
obtain a global picture of the trophic position and ecological role of squids in marine …

Cephalopods play a signicant role in coastal and oceanic ecosystems, both as consumers of
invertebrates and small sh and as the prey of some sh, seabirds and marine mammals and …

The interactions among diet, ecology, physiology, and biochemistry affect N and C stable
isotope signatures in animal tissues. Here, we examined if ecological segregation among …

The spatial and temporal variations of deep-sea megafaunal assemblages from the western
Mediterranean are analysed in the present paper. The assemblages from two locations of …

Stomach contents of Todarodes sagittatus caught by trawlers working from 100 to 800 m
depth in the Balearic Sea (western Mediterranean) were studied. From the 348 stomachs …

The life cycle of the two species of the deep-sea family Histioteuthidae inhabiting the
Mediterranean Sea (Histioteuthis reversa and Histioteuthis bonnellii) was studied from …

Length-weight relationship (LWR) studies have been widely conducted for fish. They are
important because they provide information about the growth of the fish, its general …