Appendix Table 9.— Percent frequency of occurrence of principal 

 invertebrate groups in 81 stomachs of western North Atlantic 

 Alepisaurus spp. 



Food categories 



j freq. 



Brachyura larvae 



Anomura larvae 



Scyllaridae (larvae) 



Other Decapoda (incl. larvae) 



Stomatopoda larvae 



Euphausiacea 



Phrosina semilunata 



Phronima spp. 



Other Hyperiidea 



Isopoda 



All Crustacea combined 



Heteropoda 



Pteropoda 



Other Gastropoda 



Polychaeta 



Salpa and Pyrosoma 



Cephalopoda 



Medusae 



23 



22 



5 



4 



2 



17 



60 



51 



47 



1 



75 



14 



12 



4 



38 



16 



49 



6 



Appendix Table 10. — Occurrence and co-occurrence of crustaceans and cephalopods in 

 the stomachs of western North Atlantic Thunnus and Alepisaurus species. 





Nun 



berof 





Number 



Co-occurrence, estimated 





exclusive occurrences 



of 



average percent-volume 

















Species 



Crustaceans 



Cephalopods 



rences 



Crustaceans 



Cephalopods 



T. albacares 



28 





89 



125 



31 



69 



T. alalunga 



7 





8 



30 



33 



67 



T. obesus 



1 





7 



7 



21 



79 



T. thynnus 



3 





26 



14 



23 



77 



Alepisaurus spp. 



30 





9 



31 



54 



46 



Appendix Table 11.— Percent frequency of occurrence of cephalopod groups in stomachs of western North 

 Atlantic Thunnus and Alepisaurus species. 





T. albacares 



T. alalunga 



T. obesus 



T. thynnus 



Alepisaurus spp. 



Specimens containing cephalopods 

 (Percent of total) 



214 

 (77) 



38 

 (79) 



14 

 (100) 



40 

 (77) 



40 

 (49) 



Soft-bodied squids, 1 % with 

 Other squids, % with 

 Argonauta spp., c c with 

 Altoposus mollis, % with 

 Other octopods, % with 



2 



3 











15 



72 



66 



86 



45 



42 



36 



8 







25 



25 



5 











48 



32 



12 



32 











32 



l Bathyteuthidae, Cranchiidae, and Histioteuthidae. 



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