Food and Feeding Habits Summary Kajikia albida
 
Main Ref. JĂșnior, T.V., C.M. Vooren and R.P. Lessa, 2004
Fish stage juv./adults Mean length 165.00 FL
Sample size 120 Percent empty
Country Brazil Locality Southwestern equatorial Atlantic, October 1992-December 1999
Period
  • January
  • February
  • March
  • April
  • May
  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October
  • November
  • December
Highlighted items on the list are known Feeding Periods of Kajikia albida
Diet percent Food I Food II Food III Prey stage Item Name Comments
0.10 % zoobenthos sponges/tunicates ascidians juv./adults Tunicates Tunicates
71.40 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Brama brama Balistes vetula 0.3 Brama brama 16.2 Corniger spinosus 0.1 Coryphaena hippurus 2.9 Cypselurus spp. 4.1 Dactylopterus volitans 0.7 Decapterus punctatus 0.1 Diodon hystrix 2.2 Gempylus serpens 11.0 Holocentridae: Kali parri 0.1 Lagocephalus sp. 0.1 Leptocephalus 0.1 Oxyporhamphus micropterus 0.7 Ranzania laevis 3.9 Ruvettus pretiosus 2.3 Scombridae 5.4 Teleostei 19.0 Tylosurus sp. 1.9
1.10 % zoobenthos mollusks gastropods juv./adults Oxygyrus keraudrenii Oxygyrus keraudrenii
0.50 % zoobenthos benth. crust. n.a./other benth. crustaceans juv./adults Brachyscelus crusculum Brachyscelus crusculum 0.1 Euphausiacea 0.1 Hemithyphis tenuimanus 0.1 Nephropidae 0.1 Phrosina semilunata 0.1
26.90 % nekton cephalopods squids/cuttlefish juv./adults Ornithoteuthis antillarum Cephalopoda 2.7 Hyaloteuthis pelagica 6.2 Omnastrephes bartramii 2.6 Ornithoteuthis antillarum 15.4
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