Habitat Type 



Family and Species 



Diet 

 Reference 



Ephippidae - spadefishes 

 Chaetodipterus faber 

 ■Atlantic spadef ish 



Pomacentridae - 

 damsel fishes 



Abudefduf saxatilis 



sergeant major 



2, 3, 5, 



11, 16-18 



Worms, crustaceans, debris Darnell 



1961 



101-135 mm: copepods, algae, Randall 

 fish eggs, fish, shrimp larvae, 1967 

 polychaetes 



Juveniles (7-12 mm) 

 inhabit very shallow 

 nearshore sandy 

 beaches. Bear a 

 deceptive resemblance 

 to infertile red 

 mangrove seed pods 

 (Breder 1946) 



Characteristic family 

 of coral reefs (Ran- 

 dall 1967) 



A habitat generalist: 

 reefs , grassbeds , 

 rock piles, wharfs 

 (Bohlke & Chaplin 

 1968) 



Labridae - wrasses 



Halichoeres bivittatus 

 slippery dick 



67-153 mm: crabs, sea urchins, Randall 

 polychaetes , gastropods , brittle 1967 

 stars, bivalves , shrimp, fish, 

 hermit crabs 



Shallow water patch 

 reefs, sand bottoms, 

 gr a s sbeds ( Randa 1 1 

 1967) 



Scaridae - parrotfishes 

 Nicholsina usta 

 emerald parrotfish 



+ 1, 2, 11, 18 



Family herbivorous, feeding 

 primarily on algae growing 



on hard substrates, 

 on seagrasses 



secondarily 



Randal] Family characteris- 

 1967 tic of coral reefs, 

 ranging into grass- 

 beds 



Scarus coeruleus 

 blue parrotfish 



Scarus croicensis 



striped parrotfish 



Spar i soma chrysopterum 

 redtail parrotfish 



Sparisoma rubripinne 

 redfin parrotfish 



Sparisoma viride 

 stoplight parrotfish 



Mugilidae - mullets 

 Mugil ce phalus 

 striped mullet 



Mugil curema 

 white mullet 



11 



+ 2, 3, 5, 7, 



11-13, 15 



+ 2, 5, 7, 

 11-12 



Inorganic sediments, fine 

 detritus , micro-algae 



25-73 mm: plant detritus, blue- 

 green algae ( Lyngbya majuscula ) 



Odum 1971 



Austin & 



Austin 



1971 



Requires near marine 

 salinities {Tabb & 

 Manning 1961) 



Mugil trichodon 

 fantail mullet 



Sphyraenidae - barracudas 

 Sphyraena barracuda 

 great barracuda 



Opistognathidae - jawfishes 

 Opistognathus maxillosus 

 mottled jawfish 



+ 2, 7, 11, 12 



1-5, 7, 8, 

 11, 13 



135-369 mm: fish ( Eucinostomus 

 quia, Menidia beryllina , Archo- 

 sargus probatocephalus ) 



53-110 mm: shrimp, isopods, 

 fishes, polychaetes, mysids, 

 copepods 



Odum 1971 



Randa 1 1 

 1967 



Salinities >10 o/oo 

 (Odum 1971) 



Family lives in 

 burrows in sediment, 

 often in vicinity 

 of reefs (Randall 

 1967) 



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