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Polycheles typhlops

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Wikipedia Abstract

Polycheles typhlops is a species of blind, deep water decapod crustacean with a cosmopolitan distribution. It is "one of the dominant and most characteristic crustaceans in deep-sea communities of the Mediterranean Sea".
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Prey / Diet

Calocaris macandreae[1]
Natatolana borealis[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Pasiphaea multidentata (pink glass shrimp)2
Plesionika acanthonotus (lesser striped shrimp)2
Plesionika edwardsii (soldier striped shrimp)1
Plesionika ensis (gladiator striped shrimp)2
Plesionika martia (golden shrimp)2

Predators

Chimaera monstrosa (Chimaera)[2]
Galeus eastmani (Gecko catshark)[3]
Galeus melastomus (Black-mouth catshark)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Patterns of resource use in deep-water decapods, Mary Labropoulou, Ioannis Kostikas, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 184: 171-182, 1999
♦ 2Feeding habits and trophic levels of Mediterranean fish, Konstantinos I. Stergiou & Vasiliki S. Karpouzi, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 11: 217–254, 2002
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0