Diets of deep-water pandalid shrimps on the Western Mediterranean slope

Abstract Most of the studies on Mediterranean pandalids focused on their spatial distribution, reproduction patterns and diet but few on interspecific relationships. The present work deals with interspecific comparison between two widely distributed pandalids ( P. martia, P. heterocarpus), analyzing size segregation among three different areas in the northern Aegean Sea. Keywords : Aegean Sea, Decapoda, Crustacea, Population Dynamics, Competition. Logarithmic decline of food energy availability in deep water is the most important factor in shaping of deep water fauna References 1 -Haedrich R.L., 1996. Deep-water fishes: evolution and adaptation in the earth's largest living space