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 |
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Diet percent | Food I | Food II | Food III | Prey stage | Item Name | Comments |
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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 |