FISHERY BULLETIN: VOL. 87, NO. 3, 1989 



Table 7. — Diet of larval Paralabrax spp. Results for preflexion stage larvae are given above; those for the 

 flexion-postflexion stage larvae are below. A blank column indicates that no larvae contained food in that 

 stratum. Water column strata are N = neuston; M = midwater; E = epibenthos. %N = the percent of the total 

 food items attributable to a given food category; %F0 = the percent of larvae containing food items that 

 contained prey of the given category. Copepods listed as prey include both copepodites and adults. 



Preflexion 

 Stenoscmella spp. 

 Bivalve veligers 

 Paracalanus par\us 

 Euterpina acutifrons 

 E. acutifrons (nauplii) 

 Unidentified copepods 

 Cirriped nauplii 

 Unidentified 



Total food items 



Mean prey/feeding larva 

 Flexion-postflexion 

 Acartia tonsa 

 Corycaeus anglicus 

 Oitfiona oculata 

 Euterpina acutifrons 

 Unidentified copepods 

 Euphausid calyptopis 

 Unidentified 



Total food items 



Mean prey/feeding larva 



578 



