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Food Habits And Body Composition Of Some Dominant Deep-Sea Fishes From Temperate And Tropical Regions Of The Western North Atlantic, Roy E. Crabtree

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Food habits of 23 species of demersal deep-sea fishes from the temperate Middle Atlantic Bight and the tropical Bahamas region are described. In addition, body composition parameters including percent water, ash, carbon, and nitrogen are discussed for 48 demersal species from these study areas. Food habits data on Bahamian species are combined with those from other studies in an attempt to describe the trophic structure of this tropical deep-sea fish assemblage. Numerical classification techniques are used to group species based upon similarity of diets. Four groups are evident, including a group which feeds largely on polychaetes, a second which feeds …