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Table 4. Comparison of major food groups from snowy grouper overlapping with 
those of three other sympatric species of bottom fishes studied off North Carolina 
and South Carolina. 
Prey Group 
Predator 
Snowy 1 
Grouper 
Vermilion 3 Red 2 ’ 4 ’ 5 ’ 6 
Snapper Porgy 
Blueline 7 
Tilefish 
INVERTEBRATES 
Cephalopods 
(squid) 
X 
X 
X 
X 
Stomatopoda 
X 
X 
X 
X 
Calappidae 
X 
X (megalops 
X 
X 
only) 
Cancridae 
X 
Leucosiidae 
X 
Majidae 
X 
X (zoea, 
X 
X 
megalops) 
Parthenopidae 
X 
X 
X 
X 
Portunidae 
X 
X 
X 
X 
Scyllaridae 
X 
X 
X 
Solenoceridae 
X 
X 
X 
X 
FISH 
Caproidae 
X 
Centriscidae 
X 
Congridae 
X 
X 
Ophichthidae 
X 
X 
X 
Serranidae 
X 
X 
X 
X 
Stromateidae 
X 
X 
X 8 
Synodontidae 
X 
X 
X 
1 Present study central North Carolina specimens. 
2 Duke University Marine Laboratory (1982), North Carolina and South Carolina 
specimens. 
3 Grimes (1979), North Carolina and South Carolina specimens. 
4 South Carolina Wildlife Marine Resource Department (1982), South Carolina 
and Georgia specimens. 
5 South Carolina Wildlife Marine Resources Department and Duke University Marine 
Laboratory (1982), North Carolina specimens. 
6 Manooch (1977), North Carolina and South Carolina specimens. 
7 Ross (1982), North Carolina and South Carolina specimens. 
8 Personal Observation. 
