Had a gut full, of the scaled stargazer Pleuroscopus pseudodorsalis Barnard 1927
Peter G. Coulson
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A Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Government of Western Australia, PO Box 20, North Beach, WA 6920, Australia.
B Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia.
C Corresponding author. Email: Peter.Coulson@dpird.wa.gov.au
Pacific Conservation Biology - https://doi.org/10.1071/PC20085
Submitted: 1 November 2020 Accepted: 17 December 2020 Published online: 12 January 2021
Abstract
The head of a large scaled stargazer Pleuroscopus pseudodorsalis Barnard 1927 was found in the stomach of a bass groper Polyprion americanus caught in deep waters off the south-east coast of Western Australia. The finding of this specimen increases our knowledge of the distribution of P. pseudodorsalis and the estimated age of 22 years of this specimen, based on counts of growth (opaque) zones in the section otoliths, is the first such information for this species.
Keywords: bass groper, continental shelf, deep sea, diet, longevity, ocean, otoliths, Pleuroscopus pseudodorsalis, Polyprion americanus, scaled stargazer, Uranoscopidae.
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