On the Scabbard Fish Aphanopus Carbo
- 1 February 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 51 (1), 219-225
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400006573
Abstract
INTRODUCTIONThe black scabbard fish, Aphanopus carbo Lowe, is an elongate mid-water trichiurid, which is caught commercially off Madeira, and has been recorded, though infrequently, from British waters (Tucker & Palmer, 1949; Tucker, 1956). Twelve specimens were caught during a recent cruise of R.V. ‘Sarsia’ in the Biscay area (Forster, 1970), and this note reports observations on their behaviour, histology and anatomy, which suggest that these fish are highly specialized for a particular method of catching prey.Keywords
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