Ecology Summary - Pasiphaea multidentata

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Ecology of Pasiphaea multidentata

Main Ref.	Williams, A.B., L.G. Abele, D.L. Felder, H.H. Hobbs Jr., R.B. Manning, P.A. McLaughlin and I. Pérez Farfante, 1988
Remarks	Benthopelagic. Juveniles carry out actual vertical migrations while adults undertake epibenthic movements along the bottom (Ref. 105772). Found in the continental shelf (Refs. 79119, 78232), upper and middle slope (Refs. 78232, 105341). Predatory activity occurs higher in the water column at night. Bases its diet on mesopelagic fishes and juvenile cephalopods, decapods, and euphausiids. However nocturnal diet is observed and includes gammarid amphipods, isopods, and macruran decapods (Ref. 105773).

Main Ref.

Williams, A.B., L.G. Abele, D.L. Felder, H.H. Hobbs Jr., R.B. Manning, P.A. McLaughlin and I. Pérez Farfante, 1988

Remarks

Benthopelagic. Juveniles carry out actual vertical migrations while adults undertake epibenthic movements along the bottom (Ref. 105772). Found in the continental shelf (Refs. 79119, 78232), upper and middle slope (Refs. 78232, 105341). Predatory activity occurs higher in the water column at night. Bases its diet on mesopelagic fishes and juvenile cephalopods, decapods, and euphausiids. However nocturnal diet is observed and includes gammarid amphipods, isopods, and macruran decapods (Ref. 105773).

Aquatic zones / Water bodies

	Marine - Neritic	Marine - Oceanic	Brackishwater	Freshwater
Marine zones / Brackish and freshwater bodies	supra-littoral zone littoral zone sublittoral zone	epipelagic mesopelagic epipelagic abyssopelagic hadopelagic	estuaries/lagoons/brackish seas mangroves marshes/swamps	rivers/streams lakes/ponds caves exclusively in caves

Highighted items on the list are where Pasiphaea multidentata may be found.

Habitat

Substrate	Pelagic;
Substrate Ref.
Special habitats	Other habitats: seamounts;
Special habitats Ref.	Sabatini, A., M.C. Follesa, I. Locci, G. Matta, F. Palmas, A.A. Pendugiu and A. Cau, 2011

Associations

Ref.
Associations
Associated with
Association remarks
Parasitism

feeding

Feeding type	mainly animals (troph. 2.8 and up)
Feeding type Ref.	Cartes, J.E., 1993
Feeding habit	hunting macrofauna (predator)
Feeding habit Ref.	Cartes, J.E., 1993

Trophic Level(s)

Estimation method	original sample		unfished population		Remark
Estimation method	Troph	s.e.	Troph	s.e.	Remark
From diet composition
From individual food items	3.69	0.51			Trophic level estimated from a number of food items using a randomized resampling routine.
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