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XVIII.—The Benthic Amphipoda of the North-Western North Sea and Adjacent Waters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

D. S. Raitt
D. S. Raitt
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The Marine Laboratory of the Fishery Board for Scotland, Aberdeen
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The order Amphipoda, of the Crustacea Malacostraca, which consists of the 3 sub-orders Hyperiidea, Gammaridea, and Caprellidea, is highly important in the economics of the sea as a source of fish food. Hyperiids figure prominently in the diet of species which feed pelagically. Hardy (1924), for example, found them amongst the principal items in the food of East Anglian herring. Gammarids are preyed upon by bottom feeders in general. Todd (1905, 1907) and Blegvad (1916) record them in varying percentages from the stomachs of adult cod, haddock, whiting, plaice, dabs, flounders, sole, and skate. Their chief importance, however, would seem to be in the diet of fishes in post-larval and adolescent stages. Todd (1907, 1914) found Gammarids the main support of cod under 15 cm. and of plaice and dabs under 10 cm. Blegvad (1930) states that in Danish waters, plaice in their first year feed almost exclusively upon them. Clark (1922) found that in the early stages of 4 species of skate, Amphipods occurred in from 50 to 84 per cent of the stomachs examined, and Steven (1930) found the food of young stages of R. clavata and R. maculata to consist chiefly of Gammaridea. Gammarid species, as recorded by Hunt (1924), are also eaten by a variety of bottom-dwelling invertebrates.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 57 , 1938 , pp. 241 - 254
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1938

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