Citation: Mauchline, J. & Gordon, J.D.M. 1980 The food and feeding of deep-sea morid fish Lepidion eques (Gunther, 1887) in the Rockall Trough. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 60: 1053-1059
Number of Pages: 7
Volume Part: 4
Keywords: Ecology, Fauna, Fish, Marine, Pisces, Rockall, Sublittoral
Abstract: The stomach content of Lepidion eques trawled at depths ranging from 500 to 1250 m on the Hebridean Terrace were analysed relative to size of fish, depth of habitat and season of year. It was found that L. equs feed predominantly on organisms swimming immediately above the seabed or actively moving over it.