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Figure 2.— Stomach fullness throughout the diel cycle for six species of myctophids and one species of melamphaid: Hygophum 

 proximum, Lampanyctus niger, Lampanyctus nobilis, Lampanyctus steinbecki, Notolychnus valdiviae, Triphoturus nigrescens, and 

 Melamphaes danae. Symbols and format as in Figure 1. 



Lampanyctus nohilis (Figure 2) 



Lampanyctus nobilis appeared to regurgitate 

 food more frequently than other species examined. 



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Because few specimens ofL. nobilis were collected 

 (none from SR and <20 from four other periods), I 

 included in the analyses data from 19 specimens 

 that had some partially digested food in the mouth 



