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Food in early life stages of Dosidicus gigas (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae) from the Gulf of California, Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2013

Susana Camarillo-Coop ,
César A. Salinas-Zavala ,
Bertha E. Lavaniegos  and
Unai Markaida
Susana Camarillo-Coop
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR), Instituto Politécnico Nacional No. 195 Col. Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, C.P. 23096 La Paz, Baja California Sur, México
César A. Salinas-Zavala*
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR), Instituto Politécnico Nacional No. 195 Col. Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, C.P. 23096 La Paz, Baja California Sur, México
Bertha E. Lavaniegos
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigación Científica y Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Carretera Ensenada-Tijuana No. 3918, Zona Playitas, C.P. 22860 Ensenada, Baja California, México
Unai Markaida
Affiliation:
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Avenida Rancho, Polígono 2 Parque Industrial Lerma C.P. 24500 Campeche, México
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: C.A. Salinas-Zavala, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR), Instituto Politécnico Nacional No. 195 Col., Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, C.P. 23096 La Paz, Baja California Sur, México email: csalinas@cibnor.mx
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Abstract

The digestive system of 36 paralarvae and 150 juvenile Dosidicus gigas were analysed to determine the diet. The early life stages were collected in the central and south region of the Gulf of California during different years and ranged in dorsal mantle length (ML) from 2.8 to 120.5 mm. The food content was separated first into identifiable material (IM) and non-identifiable material (NIM). All paralarvae contained only NIM stored mainly in the caecum rather than stomach. Juvenile squid feed on nine different prey types: euphausiids, copepods, amphipods, unidentified crustaceans, fishes, cephalopods, pteropods, bivalves and polychaetes. The IM were found mainly in the stomachs of juveniles with increasing number and diversity of prey in a function of increasing squid body size. In fact, juveniles from 60 to 120 mm ML had high stomach fullness percentages in half full and completely full stomachs suggesting improvement of swimming and hunting behaviour as they grow.

Keywords

paralarvaefoodearly life stagesjumbo squidDosidicus gigaspreystomach fullnessfrequency of occurrencezooplankton
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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 93 , Issue 7 , November 2013 , pp. 1903 - 1910
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2013 

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