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Jonathan D. R. Houghton

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Reply to LoganDodge: 'stable isotopes challenge the perception of ocean sunfish Mola mola as obligate jellyfish predators'.

2013

Syvaranta et al. (2012) recently provided stable-isotope data from eight small-bodied ocean sunfish Mola mola (L. 1758) captured from the Italian fishing port of Camogli on the Ligurian coast. Representative data were also given for members of pelagic and neritic–coastal food webs. The level of 13C and 15N enrichment shown by M. mola relative to their putative obligate diet of gelatinous zooplankton (gelata) (based on the locally dominant Pelagia noctiluca and literature data) was used to question their obligate consumption of such prey. Furthermore, the M. mola were isotopically more similar to neritic rather than pelagic fishes captured locally, prompting the suggestion that juvenile M. m…

Gelatinous zooplanktonJellyfishFood ChainbiologyFishingOcean sunfishPelagic zoneAquatic Sciencebiology.organism_classificationFood webPerciformesFisheryMediterranean seaMolabiology.animalAnimalsEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsJournal of fish biology
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Stable isotopes challenge the perception of ocean sunfish Mola mola as obligate jellyfish predators

2011

Evidence is provided from stable isotope analysis that aggregations of small ocean sunfish Mola mola (total length <1 m) feed broadly within coastal food webs and their classification as obligate predators of gelatinous zooplankton requires revision.

Gelatinous zooplanktonJellyfishbiologyObligateEcologyOcean sunfishAquatic Sciencebiology.organism_classificationFood webPredationFisheryMolabiology.animalEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsIsotope analysisJournal of Fish Biology
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