Diet Overlap

Urophycis chuss (Squirrel hake)
Xiphias gladius (Swordfish)

Common Diet

Illex illecebrosus (northern shortfin squid)
Merluccius bilinearis (Whiting)

Common Habitat

Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic, Northwest
Atlantic, Western Central
Canada
Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf
Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf
United Kingdom
United States

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Feeding Spectrum and Trophic Relationships of Short-finned Squid (Illex illecebrosus) in the Northwest Atlantic, Yu. M. Froerman, NAFO Sci. Coun. Studies, 7: 67-75 (1984)
♦ 2CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 3Food 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)