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title: "Calamari for dinner?  Albatrosses help reveal cephalopod fauna and its trophic relationships in Kerguelen waters"
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# Calamari for dinner?  Albatrosses help reveal cephalopod fauna and its trophic relationships in Kerguelen waters

In a paper on the cephalopod fauna found around the French Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean Yves Cherel ([Centre d'Études biologiques de Chizé](http://www.cebc.cnrs.fr/), France[http://www.cebc.cnrs.fr/](http://www.cebc.cnrs.fr/)) and colleagues record two new prey taxa taken by Wandering Albatrosses *Diomedea exulans* when rearing chicks on that island: *"Histioteuthis atlantica*(Hoyle, 1885) and *Taonius*sp. B (Voss), whose buccal masses were found in food samples of wandering albatrosses."

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/W/Wandering/Wandering_Albatross_by_John_Cooper.jpg "Wanderting Albatross and chick.  Photograph by John Cooper")

 **Reference:**

 Cherel, Y., Gasco, N. & Duhamel, G. 2011.  Top predators and stable isotopes document the cephalopod fauna and its trophic relationships in Kerguelen waters.  In: Duhamel, G. & Welsford, D. (Eds).  *The Kerguelen Plateau: marine ecosystem and fisheries*.  [*S**ociété Française d'Ichtyologie**, Paris*: 99-108](http://www.cebc.cnrs.fr/publipdf/2011/CSFI_2011.pdf).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 12 October 2011*