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1 August 2000 Hydrothermal Vent Mussel Bathymodiolus sp. (Mollusca: Mytilidae): Diet Item of Hydrolagus affinis (Pisces: Chimaeridae)
Afonso Marques, Filipe Porteiro
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Abstract

Two Hydrolagus affinis caught off Azores (Lucky Strike vent field) were identified as consumers of the hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus sp. It is the first notice of a vertebrate feeding on this endemic mytilid species.

The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Afonso Marques and Filipe Porteiro "Hydrothermal Vent Mussel Bathymodiolus sp. (Mollusca: Mytilidae): Diet Item of Hydrolagus affinis (Pisces: Chimaeridae)," Copeia 2000(3), 806-807, (1 August 2000). https://doi.org/10.1643/0045-8511(2000)000[0806:HVMBSM]2.0.CO;2
Accepted: 12 November 1999; Published: 1 August 2000
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