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A preliminary investigation of the feeding ecology of skates (Batoidea: Rajidae) off the west coast of southern Africa

Pages 71-81 | Published online: 08 Apr 2010

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Jerusha Bennett & Haseeb S. Randhawa. (2019) Diet composition of New Zealand’s endemic rough skate, Zearaja nasuta. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 53:1, pages 162-168.
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Joseph D. Schmitt, Todd Gedamke, William D. DuPaul & John A. Musick. (2015) Ontogenetic and Sex-Specific Shifts in the Feeding Habits of the Barndoor Skate. Marine and Coastal Fisheries 7:1, pages 409-418.
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Hasna Kadri, Sondes Marouani, Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradai & Abderrahmen Bouaïn. (2014) Food habits of the brown ray Raja miraletus (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae) from the Gulf of Gabès (Tunisia). Marine Biology Research 10:4, pages 426-434.
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Mate Šantić, Biljana Rađa & Armin Pallaoro. (2013) Feeding habits of brown ray (Raja miraletus Linnaeus, 1758) from the eastern central Adriatic Sea. Marine Biology Research 9:3, pages 301-308.
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H. Kadri, B. Saïdi, S. Marouani, M.N. Bradai & A. Bouaïn. (2013) Food habits of the rough ray Raja radula (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae) from the Gulf of Gabès (central Mediterranean Sea). Italian Journal of Zoology 80:1, pages 52-59.
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I. Consalvo, D. Iraci Sareri, M. Bottaro, A. Tudisco, G. Cantone & M. Vacchi. (2010) Diet composition of juveniles of rough ray Raja radula (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae) from the Ionian Sea. Italian Journal of Zoology 77:4, pages 438-442.
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İsmail Burak DABAN, Koray CABBAR & Cahide Çiğdem YIĞIN. (2021) Feeding Ecology of Thornback Ray, Raja clavata (Linnaeus 1758) in Gökçeada Island, Northern Aegean Sea, Turkey. Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences 38:1, pages 197-211.
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SJ Simpson, DW Sims & CN Trueman. (2019) Ontogenetic trends in resource partitioning and trophic geography of sympatric skates (Rajidae) inferred from stable isotope composition across eye lenses. Marine Ecology Progress Series 624, pages 103-116.
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Sean Youn, Corey Okinaka & Lydia M. Mäthger. (2019) Elaborate pupils in skates may help camouflage the eye. Journal of Experimental Biology 222:4.
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Francesco Tiralongo, Giuseppina Messina, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Daniele Tibullo & Bianca Maria Lombardo. (2018) Some biological aspects of juveniles of the rough ray, Raja radula Delaroche, 1809 in Eastern Sicily (central Mediterranean Sea). Journal of Sea Research 142, pages 174-179.
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Sondes Marouani, Hasna Kadri, Sami Karaa & Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradai. (2018) Feeding ecology of the piked spurdog Squalus megalops (Chondrichthyes: Squalidae) in the Gulf of Gabès (central Mediterranean Sea). Marine and Freshwater Research 69:1, pages 48.
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Jenny M. Kemper, Joseph J. Bizzarro & David A. Ebert. (2017) Dietary variability in two common Alaskan skates (Bathyraja interrupta and Raja rhina). Marine Biology 164:3.
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Santiago A. Barbini & Luis O. Lucifora. (2016) Big fish (and a smallish skate) eat small fish: diet variation and trophic level of Sympterygia acuta , a medium-sized skate high in the food web . Marine Ecology 37:2, pages 283-293.
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Hasna Kadri, Sondes Marouani, Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradai & Abderrahmen Bouaïn. (2014) Diet and feeding strategy of thornback ray, Raja clavata (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae) from the Gulf of Gabes (Tunisia—Central Mediterranean Sea) . Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 94:7, pages 1509-1516.
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David A. Ebert, Leonard J. V. Compagno & Paul D. Cowley. (2008) Aspects of the reproductive biology of skates (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes: Rajoidei) from southern Africa. ICES Journal of Marine Science 65:1, pages 81-102.
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