Haematophagous feeding of newly metamorphosed European sea lampreys Petromyzon marinus on strictly freshwater species.

J Fish Biol

Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Campus Vida, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Published: May 2013

Approximately 6% of the freshwater living northern straight-mouth nase Pseudochondrostoma duriense in two Spanish rivers had attached post-metamorphic sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus. Minimum prey size was 16·1 cm fork length and 56·3 g mass. The condition factor of attacked P. duriense was 16% lower than that of unattacked conspecifics.

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