Citation: Murphy, K.P. & Fairley, J.S. 1985 Food of otters Lutra lutra on the south shore of Galway Bay. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 85B: 47-55
Number of Pages: 9
Volume Part: 4
Keywords: Ecology, Fauna, Fish, Galway, Littoral, Mammal, Marine, Otter, Pisces
Abstract: Paper investigates the food of the otter Lutra lutra by analyses of monthly collections of faeces along south shores of Galway Bay. This proved to be almost entirely a wide range of littoral and sublittoral demersal fish, particularly rockling, eel and wrasses.