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Table 1 Equations used to rebuild body mass from beak size (LRL or LHL) for each species

From: Pelagic cephalopods of the central Mediterranean Sea determined by the analysis of the stomach content of large fish predators

Superorder and order

Family

Species

Equation

References

No. of individuals

Octopodiformes

Octopoda

Octopodidae

Eledone cirrhosa

ln W = 1.68 + 2.85 * ln LHL

Clarke (1986)

214

 

Pteroctopus tetracirrhus

W = 0.951 + 0.928 * LHL

Present paper (only juveniles)

11

 

Scaeurgus unicirrhus

W = 0.943 + 0.937 * LHL

Present paper (only juveniles)

6

Argonautidae

Argonauta argo

ln W =− 0.545 + 3.26 * ln LHL

Present paper

10

Ocythoidae

Ocythoe tuberculata

ln W = −1.05 + 2.51 * ln LHL

Lu and Ickeringill (2002)

16

Tremoctopodidae

Tremoctopus violaceus

ln W = 0.390 + 2.829 * ln LHL

Present paper

8

Decapodiformes

Oegopsida

Brachioteuthidae

Brachioteuthis riisei

ln W = −0.81 + 2.94 * ln LRL

Lu and Ickeringill (2002)

25

Chiroteuthidae

Chiroteuthis veranyi

ln W = −0.241 + 2.7 * ln LRL

Clarke (1980)

14

Cranchiidae

Galiteuthis armata

ln W = 0.700 + 2.233 * ln LRL

Present paper

5

Ancistrocheiridae

Ancistrocheirus lesueurii

ln W = −0.194 + 3.56 * ln LRL

Clarke (1980)

21

Enoploteuthidae

Abralia veranyi

ln W = 0.979 + 2.304 * ln LRL

Present paper

5

Histioteuthidae

Histioteuthis bonnellii

ln W = 1.594 + 2.31 * ln LRL

Clarke (1986)

Histioteuthis reversa

ln W = 1.41 + 2.35 * ln LRL

Lu and Ickeringill (2002)

10

Octopoteuthidae

Octopoteuthis cfr sicula

ln W = 0.23 + 2.54 * ln LRL

Lu and Ickeringill (2002)

9

Ommastrephidae

Illex coindetii

ln W = 1.174 + 2.47 * ln LRL

Clarke (1962a, b)

14

Ommastrephes bartrami

ln W = 1.834 + 2.07 * ln LRL

Wolff (1982)

Todarodes sagittatus

ln W = 0.783 + 2.83 * ln LRL

Clarke (1962a, b)

Todaropsis eblanae

ln W = 1.066 + 2.724 * ln LRL

Zumholz and Piatkowski (2005)

313

Onychoteuthidae

Ancistroteuthis lichtensteinii

ln W = 0.09 + 3.23 * ln LRL

Lu and Ickeringill (2002)

18

Onychoteuthis banksii

ln W = 0.58 + 3.7 * ln LRL

Wolff (1984)

Thysanoteuthidae

Thysanoteuthis rhombus

ln W = 2.855 + 3.06 * ln LRL

Clarke (1962a, b)

7

Myopsida

Loliginidae

Alloteuthis subulata

ln W = 2 + 2.75 * ln LRL

Clarke (1986)

116

Sepioidea

Sepiolidae

Heteroteuthis dispar

ln W = 1.033 + 2.527 * ln LRL

Present paper

14