Broader head, stronger bite: In vivo bite forces in European eel Anguilla anguilla

J De Meyer; A Herrel; Claude Belpaire; G Goemans; C Ide; B De Kegel; J Christiaens; D Adriaens

doi:10.1111/jfb.13511

Broader head, stronger bite: In vivo bite forces in European eel Anguilla anguilla

J De Meyer, A Herrel, Claude Belpaire, G Goemans, C Ide, B De Kegel, J Christiaens, D Adriaens

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This work examined three different phenotypes of the yellow-eel stage of the European eel Anguilla anguilla, broad-heads, narrow-heads and eels with an intermediate head shape. The aim was to see whether broad-headed A. anguilla, which generally consume harder, larger prey, such as crustaceans and fish, exerted greater bite force than the narrow-headed variant, which mainly consume soft, small prey such as chironomid larvae. It was found that in 99 yellow A. anguilla, in vivo bite force of broad-heads are higher compared with narrow-heads and intermediates.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Fish Biology
Volume	92
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	268-273
Number of pages	6
ISSN	0022-1112
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13511
Publication status	Published - Jan-2018

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