Helo to all:
Well, I am new to this forum and I hope some of my questions can be solved. I am geology student and I like very much all about deep sea, I have a little collection of things that I have obtained here in North Chile from the fisheries trawling of prawns, well one of the things I have obtained are beaks that I recoginze are of squids; they measure about 45-55 mm long but they are only the hard prong, some of them are very eroded and marked with scars that seems to be of little gastropods, some of them I found inside one of the beaks, well, the question is:
Which species could correspond with these beaks? and
Which kind of gastropod lives on squid beaks?
Maybe I have not bring sufficient information; these beaks were found on trawl nets at about 900-1000 m depth, off the coasts of Caldera, 27° South latitude in front of the Chile coasts at about 40 milles.
Perhaps anybody ther have discovered similar "beaks" or can tell me which squid species could habit this zone, I am also interested in the fauna of that depths.
Thanks in advance...
Juan Francisco Araya
Well, I am new to this forum and I hope some of my questions can be solved. I am geology student and I like very much all about deep sea, I have a little collection of things that I have obtained here in North Chile from the fisheries trawling of prawns, well one of the things I have obtained are beaks that I recoginze are of squids; they measure about 45-55 mm long but they are only the hard prong, some of them are very eroded and marked with scars that seems to be of little gastropods, some of them I found inside one of the beaks, well, the question is:
Which species could correspond with these beaks? and
Which kind of gastropod lives on squid beaks?
Maybe I have not bring sufficient information; these beaks were found on trawl nets at about 900-1000 m depth, off the coasts of Caldera, 27° South latitude in front of the Chile coasts at about 40 milles.
Perhaps anybody ther have discovered similar "beaks" or can tell me which squid species could habit this zone, I am also interested in the fauna of that depths.
Thanks in advance...
Juan Francisco Araya