Jellyfish as Prey: Frequency of Predation and Selective Foraging of Boops boops (Vertebrata, Actinopterygii) on the Mauve Stinger Pelagia noctiluca (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa)

• Giacomo Milisenda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Giacomo Milisenda, Sara Rosa

  * E-mail: giacomo.milisenda@unisalento.it (GM); stefano.piraino@unisalento.it (SP)

  Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali (DiSTeBA), University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Rome, Italy

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• Sara Rosa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Giacomo Milisenda, Sara Rosa

  Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Marine Ecology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Veronica L. Fuentes,

  Affiliation Institut de Ciencies del Mar-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

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• Ferdinando Boero,

  Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali (DiSTeBA), University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Rome, Italy, Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council (ISMAR-CNR), Genoa, Italy

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• Letterio Guglielmo,

  Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Marine Ecology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Jennifer E. Purcell,

  Affiliations Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Rome, Italy, Shannon Point Marine Center, Western Washington University, Anacortes, Washington, United States of America

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• Stefano Piraino

  * E-mail: giacomo.milisenda@unisalento.it (GM); stefano.piraino@unisalento.it (SP)

  Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali (DiSTeBA), University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Rome, Italy

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