Diet of Risso's dolphin ( Grampus griseus ) in the western Mediterranean Sea
By C. Blanco, Ma Ángeles Raduán, J. Raga. 2006
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The diet of Risso’s dolphin in the Mediterranean is described based on 15 animals stranded between 40°25’N 00°32’W and 37°35’N 00°45’E from April 1987 to January 2003. The prey were mainly oceanic cephalopods. Pelagic octopods, especially A. argo, were the most abundant (mean = 41.28%; SD±34.32). Species belonging to the families Ommastrephidae, Histioteuthidae and Onychoteuthidae were also frequent components of its diet. The bathymetric distribution of cephalopods shows that Risso’s dolphin preferentially feeds on the middle slope (600 to 800 m depth) in the Mediterranean.
Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change
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- Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus in the Mediterranean Sea (2011, background): “, 2002; Cabezon et al., 2004). Among the other parasites documented in Mediterranean Risso’s dolphins are Crassicauda grampicola and Pennella sp. (found in or on a few animals dead- and live-stranded in Spain and Italy; Cornaglia et al., 2000; Domingo et al., 2000; Resendes et al., 2002; Zucca et al”