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Taonius borealis

Synonyms: Belonella borealis; Belonella pacifica borealis; Belonella spec (pro parte)

Wikipedia Abstract

Belonella borealis is a glass squid belonging to the genus Belonella. It is found in the North Pacific Ocean. Belonella Borealis is a transparent to dark purple color. They have tentacles or arms, and each arm consists of two suckers per row. The tentacular club armature consists of four hooked suckers per row, medial suckers with one or two large hooks and several small cusps. The maximum size is 45-centimetre (18 in) mantle length. Their regular habitat is mesopelagic to bathypelagic. They mostly feed on shrimps, small fishes, including myctophids, and other squids. Predators include whales, sharks, and squids.
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Predators

Bathyraja maculata (White-blotched skate)[1]
Mesoplodon stejnegeri (Stejneger's Beaked Whale)[2]
Phoebastria albatrus (Short-tailed Albatross)[3]
Phoebastria immutabilis (Laysan Albatross)[4]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
♦ 2Niche Partitioning, Distribution And Competition In North Atlantic Beaked Whales, Colin D. MacLeod, A thesis submitted to the School of Biological Sciences for a degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK. January 2005
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4Population status, foods and foraging of Laysan albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis nesting on Guadalupe Island, Mexico, Robert L. Pitman, William A. Walker, William T. Everett, Juan Pablo Gallo–Reynoso, Marine Ornithology 32: 159–165 (2004)
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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