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The Contribution of Amphipoda to the Diet of Certain Inshore Fish Species in Kames Bay, Millport

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

D.J. Beare  and
P.G. Moore
D.J. Beare
Affiliation:
University Marine Biological Station, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland, KA28 OEG
P.G. Moore
Affiliation:
University Marine Biological Station, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland, KA28 OEG
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Thirteen species of Amphipoda have been recorded from the stomachs of plaice and 11 species from dabs, with Perioculodes longimanus the most notable prey oedicerotid in both flatfish species sampled from the shallow sublittoral zone (<-6 m depth) at Kames Bay, Millport. Plaice took mostly bivalve siphon tips (Angulus sp.). Polychaetes were more numerous in larger plaice. Sand gobies specialized on small crustaceans, taking 13 amphipod species inter alia (with P. longimanus again the most notable oedicerotid). Amphipod numbers in sand goby stomachs increased with the length of the fish. Neither dabs nor sand gobies consumed bivalve siphon tips and only rarely consumed polychaetes. Although amphipods formed only a minor part of the diet of plaice, at the population density known for this species in this bay, its depredations would still constitute an important selective agency governing patterns of activity in epibenthic oedicerotids.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 77 , Issue 3 , August 1997 , pp. 907 - 910
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1997

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