The Ecology of the Seagrasses of South Florida - USGS National ...

List of fishes and their diets from collections in south Florida.
Species Abundance by survey number Diet Source
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 0
Archosargus probatocephal us
sheepshead
Archosargus rh~mboides
sea bream
Lagodon rhomboides
pinfish
Cal amus arcti f rons
grass porgy
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Calamus calamus
saucereye porgy
r Less than 50 mm am~hioods, co~epods, Springer and 'lno*hur~
polychaetes; larger than 50 mm molluscs, 1960; Odun and i-leald
barnacles, algae 1972
Seagrass: Syrinaodium filiforme,
Randal 1 1967; Austin
Thalassia testudinum; algae: crabs; and Austin 1971
gastropods: eggs; pelecypods: Pinctada
ladiata; polychaetes; amphipods
c c r c p a a a a a Less than 35 mm copepods; amphipods; mysids; Carr and Adams 1973;
epiphytes; polychaetes; crabs.SL 36-65 mm Reid 1954; Brook 1975
epiphytes; shrimps; mysids; crabs; fish;
amphipods; copepods; detritus. SL greater
than 65 mm shrimp, fish; epiphytes; mysids;
detritus; crabs; amphipods; copepods
r Copepods; amphi pods; musids; shrimps; Reid 1954
pelecypods; gastropods: Witrella sp.,
Bittium sp.; polychaetes
Polychaetes; ophiuroids: Ophioderna sp., Randall 1967
Ophiothrix sp.; pelecypods: Codakia
orbicularis, Gouldia cering, Pinna
carnea; hermit crabs; crahs: majid,
echinoids: Diadema antillarum,
gastropods:Nassarius a us equla
sp., Tegula fasciata; &iz
sipuncul ids : Aspidosiphon sp.
Menticirrhus focal iger
rninkfish
Sciaeno s ocellata
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P
r r SL 31-46 mm nysids; polychaetes; amphipods;
shrimp: Palaemonetes intermedius. SL 59-
126 mm fish: Picropogon undulatus; shrimp;
crabs: insect larvae: nysids. SL 100-
500 mm shrimp: penaeids; crahs: xanthids,
Rithropanopeus harrisii, portunids
Springer and bloodburn
1960; Odun and Heald
1972:
Bairdiella chrysura r r c a a c c SL 25-99 mm shrimp; copepods; anphipods;
silver perch mollusks; fishes, polychaetes. SL 100-
130 mm shrimp, amphipods, crabs, mollusks,
fish: Anchoa mitchilli
Reid 1954; @dun and
Heald 1972; Springer
and Woodburn 1960