A mockingbird Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758) found in a stomach of a blue shark Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758).

Mario Jaime -Rivera; Salvador Hernández -Vázquez; Felipe Galván -Magaña; E.  Leonardo Pérez -Lezama

doi:10.37543/oceanides.v30i2.151

A mockingbird Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758) found in a stomach of a blue shark Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758).

Authors

Mario Jaime -Rivera
Salvador Hernández -Vázquez
Felipe Galván -Magaña
E. Leonardo Pérez -Lezama

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37543/oceanides.v30i2.151

Keywords:

Mimus polyglottos, Prionace glauca, scavenger, mockingbird, Blue shark

Abstract

A cenzontle Mimus polyglottos was found in the stomach of a juvenile Prionace blue shark glauca caught off the coast of Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico. This continental bird is a rare item like shark prey. This note helps to emphasize the role of Prionace glauca as a opportunistic predator and / or scavenger.

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2015-12-31

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Jaime -Rivera, M., Hernández -Vázquez, S., Galván -Magaña, F., & Pérez -Lezama, E. . L. (2015). A mockingbird Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758) found in a stomach of a blue shark Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758). CICIMAR Oceánides, 30(2), 53–54. https://doi.org/10.37543/oceanides.v30i2.151

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Vol. 30 No. 2 (2015)

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