Family and Species 



Habitat Type 



*-> > <y >. 



Reference 



Diet 

 Reference 



Comments 



Myliobatidae - eagle rays 

 Aetobatus narinari - 

 Spotted eagle ray 



Lepisosteidae - gars 



Lepisosteus platyrhincus - + 

 Florida gar 



2, 1, 



15 



13, 



Clams, oysters 



Boh Ike & 

 Chaplin 1968 



Fish (poeciliids, cyprinodonts , Odum 1971 

 small centrarchids) , crustaceans 

 (caridean shrimp), insect larvae 



Elopidae - tarpons 

 El ops saurus - 

 ladyfish 



2, 3, 7, 



8, 13, 15 



< 45 mm: zooplankton, chaeto- 



gnaths, polychaete 



worms 

 > 45 mm: caridean & penaeid 



shrimp, various small 



fish 



Odum 1971 

 Austin & 

 Austin 1971 



Mega lops atlantica - 

 tarpon 



, 8, 13, < 45 mm: plankton (cyclopoid 

 15 copepods) 



juveniles: fish ( Gambusia , 

 Fundulus heteroclitus , Mugil 

 cephalus) , crustaceans (ostra- 

 cods, caridean shrimp) 

 adults: wide variety of fish, 

 crabs , shrimp , ctenophores , 

 insects 



Odum 1971 

 Austin & 

 Austin 1971 



Obligate air 

 breathe rs . Juv- 

 eniles inhabit 

 shallow brackish 

 pools low in oxygen, 

 often containing 

 H,S (Wade 1962) 



Albulidae - bone fishes 

 Albula vulpes - 

 bonefish 



Anguillidae - eels 

 Anguilla rostrata - 

 American eel 



Ophichthidae - snake 



eels 



Myrophis punctatus 

 speckled worm eel 



4, 5 



8, 13 



2, 3, 17, 

 18 



Clams, snails, shrimp, small 

 fish 



50-200 mm: amphipods, isopods 

 180-472 mm: xanthid crabs,, 

 caridean shrimp, fish 

 ( Lophogobi us cyprinoides ) 



Polychaetes, Branch iostoma 

 caribaeum, sand crabs 



Bohlke & 



Chaplin 



1968 



Odum 1971 



Springer & 

 Woodburn 

 1960, 

 Reid 1954 



Members of this 

 family burrow 

 in mud or sand, 

 undersampled by 

 most methods 

 (Bohlke & Chaplin 

 1968) 



Bascanichthys scuti- 

 caris - whip eels 



Ophichthus gome si - 

 shrimp eel 



Clupeidae - herrings 

 Brevoortia smithi - 

 yellowfin sardine 



3, 17 



2, 5, 17 



Brevoortia patronus 

 Gulf menhaden 



38-48 mm: phy toplankton , zoo- Darnell 



plankton, plant fragments , 1958 



detritus 



85-103 mm: organic matter, silt, 



diatoms, foraminiferans, copepods 



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