Habitat Type 



Family and Species 



Diet 



Diet 

 Reference 



Lagodon rhomboides 

 pinfish 



1-3, 5, 7, B, In mangrove creek - scorched 

 11, 12, 16- mussel, mysids, amphipods, 

 18 false mussel 



In Whitewater Bay - 100% plant 



material 



Odum 1971 Strong preference 

 Reid 1954 for vegetated sub- 

 strate in bay areas 

 (Weinstein et al. 

 1977) 



Sciaenidae - drums 

 Balrdiella batabana 

 blue croaker 



Balrdiella chrysura 

 silver perch 



Cynoscion arenarlus 

 sand seatrout 



Cynoscion nebulosus 

 spotted seatrout 



3, 11 



Lelostomus xanthurus 

 spot 



Menticirrhus americanus 

 Southern kingfish 



Menticirrhus littoralis 

 Gulf kingfish 



Micropogon undulatus 

 Atlantic croaker 



Pogonlas cromis 

 black drum 



Sciaenops ocellata 

 red drum 



2, 11-12, 

 17-18 



11, 12 



+ 2, 7, 11, 

 12, 15 



2, 3j 5, 8, 



11-13, 15, 



17 



Equetus acuminatus 

 high-hat 



mysids, copepods, ostracods, 

 isopods , chaetognaths , bi- 

 valves, snails, polychaete 

 worms 



Fish, benthic crustaceans 



Polychaetes , bivalves ( Dona* ) , 

 sand crab Emerita) , razor clams 



Juveniles: copepods, mysids, 

 caridean shrimp, polychaete 

 worms, insect larvae, iso- 

 pods, small bivalves 



<100 mm: molluscs, xanthid 



crabs 

 >100 mm: bivalves, amphipods, 



blue crabs, penaeid shrimp, 



caridean shrimp 



<10 mm: planktonic organisms 



(copepods, crab zoea, larval 



fish) 

 34-42 mm: mysids, amphipods, 



caridean shrimp 

 >50 mm: xanthid & portunid 



crabs, penaeid shrimp, 



small fish 

 308-403 mm: xanthid crabs 



68-152 mm: shrimp S shrimp 

 larvae, isopods, stoma topod 

 larvae , copepods , amphipods 



Springer & 



Woodburn 



1960 



Springer & Most common off sandy 

 Woodburn beaches (Springer & 

 1960 woodburn 1960) 



Springer & 



Woodburn 



1960 



Darnell 

 1958 



Odum 1971 



Randall 

 1967 



Characteristic of 

 coral reefs 

 (Randall 1967) 



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