Ecology Summary - Tremoctopus violaceus

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Ecology of Tremoctopus violaceus

Main Ref.	Turgeon, D.D., J.F. Quinn Jr., A.E. Bogan, E.V. Coan, F.G. Hochberg, W.G. Lyons, P.M. Mikkelsen, R.J. Neves, C.F.E. Roper, G. Rosenberg, B. Roth, A. Scheltema, F.G. Thompson, M. Vecchione and J.D. Willams, 1998
Remarks	Observed at the surface at night but may undergo small diel vertical migrations. Females are reported to feed on pteropod molluscs and small fishes. Known to occur, on occasion, in plague proportions (Ref. 96968).

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 Tremoctopus violaceus may be found.

Habitat

Substrate	Pelagic;
Substrate Ref.	Jereb, P., C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman and J.K. Finn, 2014
Special habitats
Special habitats Ref.

Associations

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Associations
Associated with
Association remarks
Parasitism

feeding

Feeding type	mainly animals (troph. 2.8 and up)
Feeding type Ref.	Jereb, P., C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman and J.K. Finn, 2014
Feeding habit	hunting macrofauna (predator)
Feeding habit Ref.	Jereb, P., C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman and J.K. Finn, 2014

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
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