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Scomberesox saurus (Atlantic saury)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Atlantic saury (Scomberesox saurus) is a fish of the family Scomberesocidae found in the Atlantic Ocean, in the seas near Australia, and also in the Mediterranean. The fish grow to about 35 cm in length, with a maximum of 50 cm, and have beaklike jaws and a row of finlets behind their dorsal and anal fins. Atlantic sauries live near the surface, and will often jump above the surface. The fish feeds on zooplankton and fish larvae, and is hunted by tuna, marlin, bluefish and cod.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Tsitsikamma National Park II 34343 Southern Cape, South Africa  

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hysterothylacium rigidum[11]
Philometra scombresoxis[11]
Scolex pleuronectis[11]

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Citations

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♦ 2Food of Northwest Atlantic Fishes and Two Common Species of Squid, Ray E. Bowman, Charles E. Stillwell, William L. Michaels, and Marvin D. Grosslein, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-155 (2000)
♦ 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.
♦ 4DIET AND FEEDING OF DOLPHIN (CORYPHAENA HIPPURUS) IN WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN WATERS, Enric Massutí, Salud Deudero, Pilar Sánchez and Beatriz Morales-Nin, BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE, 63(2): 329–341, 1998
♦ 5Feeding ecology and niche segregation in oceanic top predators off eastern Australia, Jock W. Young, Matt J. Lansdell, Robert A. Campbell, Scott P. Cooper, Francis Juanes, Michaela A. Guest, Mar Biol (2010) 157:2347–2368
♦ 6A. L. Batchelora & G. J. B. Rossa, THE DIET AND IMPLICATIONS OF DIETARY CHANGE OF CAPE GANNETS ON BIRD ISLAND, ALGOA BAY, Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology Volume 55, Issue 2, 1984
♦ 7DIET OF THE AUSTRALASIAN GANNET MORUS SERRATOR (G.R. GRAY) AROUND NEW ZEALAND, D.A. ROBERTSON, New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1992) 16(2): 77-81
♦ 8Diet of the Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti) in northern and southern Chile, C. Herling, B. M. Culik, J. C. Hennicke, Marine Biology (2005) 147: 13–25
♦ 9Distribution and foraging behaviour of the Peruvian Booby (Sula variegata) off northern Chile, Katrin Ludynia, Stefan Garthe, Guillermo Luna-Jorquera, Journal of Ornithology (2010) 151:103–111
♦ 10Effect of environmental variability on habitat selection, diet, provisioning behaviour and chick growth in yellow-nosed albatrosses, David Pinaud, Yves Cherel, Henri Weimerskirch, MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES, Vol. 298: 295–304, 2005
♦ 11Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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