Description

Ecology. In the marine food webs, N. ingens feeds mainly on fishes (Hopkins et al. 1994) and is an important food source in the diet of fishes of the family Berycidae (Dürr & Gonzalez 2002) and the sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus (Best 1999). Regarding reproductive ecology, this species is considered semelparous (Childress & Price 1978).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Malacostraca

Order: Lophogastrida

Family: Gnathophausiidae

Genus: Neognathophausia

Species: Neognathophausia ingens (Dohrn, 1870)