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Although many of the 80 examined ROV dives did not encounter dead squids or egg sheets ( n = 69), and the phenomenon may be geographically and temporally restricted, our results show that dead, sinking squid transport carbon from the water column to the seafloor in the Gulf of California. Various deep-sea scavengers (Ophiuroidea, Holothuroidea, Decapoda, Asteroidea, Enteropneusta) were associated with the remains. To our knowledge this is one of the largest numbers of natural food falls of medium-size deep-sea nekton described to date. As many as 36 remains were encountered during a single dive. During 11 deep-sea remotely operated vehicle (ROV) surveys in the Gulf of California, the remains (squid carcasses and hatched-out egg sheets) of 64 post-brooding squid were encountered.
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This suggests that there are unidentified and unmeasured food sources reaching the seafloor. In many oceanic carbon budgets there is a discrepancy between the energetic requirements of deep-sea benthic communities and the supply of organic matter.