Myliobatis aquila (Linnaeus, 1758)

Ponte, Dário, Barcelos, Luís M. D., Santos, Cristina, Medeiros, João & Barreiros, João P., 2016, Diet of Dasyatis pastinaca and Myliobatis aquila (Myliobatiformes) from the Azores, NE Atlantic, Cybium 40 (3), pp. 209-214 : 211

Myliobatis aquila

A total of 10 individuals were sampled, with a VI of 10%. Plotting the accumulated trophic diversity with the sampled number of stomachs, we get a significant number of stomachs sampled ( Fig. 3).

A total of 371 prey items were found, belonging to two major groups (Mollusca and Crustacea), from which six were identified to species level (Tab. II). The species with higher %IRI and %MFI is Calliostoma lusitanicum Nordsieck & García-Talavera, 1979 with 53.9 and 62.7, respectively, followed by Stramonita haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1767) with 26.7 and 23.8, respectively.