Observation record

ID: 256558

Species: Paramuricea clavata

Original species entered: 125387 (WoRMS)

Location: Medes Islands, Spain

Primary resource: Coma, R., Gili, J. M., Zabala, M., & Riera, T. (1994) Feeding and prey capture cycles in the aposymbiontic gorgonian Paramuricea clavata.

Contributor: Daniel Gomez Gras

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Measurements

• 336775

  Food sources

  Zooplankton (cat)

  Raw value

  Polyp content examination
  
  
• 336776

  Food sources

  Particulated Organic Matter (POM) (cat)

  Raw value

  Polyp content examination
  
  
• 336780

  Water depth

  23.00 (m)

  Median

  Depth gauge
  
  
  17 - 29 (Range)
• 336777

  Size of prey items

  700.00 (µm)

  Median

  Extracted from data table
  
  
  100 - 1300 (Range)
• 336779

  Capture rate

  0.37 (µm polyp^-1 d^-1)

  Median

  Polyp content examination
  
  
  0.09 - 0.64 (Range)

  replicates: 100
• 336778

  Capture rate

  4.55 (prey polyp^-1 d^-1)

  Median

  Polyp content examination
  
  
  1.1 - 8 (Range)

  replicates: 100