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On the Scabbard Fish Aphanopus Carbo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Quentin Bone
Quentin Bone
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The Plymouth Laboratory
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INTRODUCTION

The black scabbard fish, Aphanopus carbo Lowe, is an elongate mid-water trichiurid, which is caught commercially off Madeira, and has been recorded, though infrequently, from British waters (Tucker & Palmer, 1949; Tucker, 1956). Twelve specimens were caught during a recent cruise of R.V. ‘Sarsia’ in the Biscay area (Forster, 1970), and this note reports observations on their behaviour, histology and anatomy, which suggest that these fish are highly specialized for a particular method of catching prey.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , February 1971 , pp. 219 - 225
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1971

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