| Referencia principal | Smith, C.L., 1978 |
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| Observaciones | Found in shallow reefs and rocky bottoms. Feeds mainly on crabs (Calapa and Mithrax) and other crustaceans (alpheid shrimps and scyllarid lobsters), fishes (labrids and haemulids), and octopus (Ref. 57616). Associated with seagrass (Ref. 118046). Carnivore (Ref. 57616). |
| Marine - Neritic | Marine - Oceanic | Brackishwater | Freshwater | |
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| Marine zones / Brackish and freshwater bodies |
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| Substrate | : rocky; |
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| Substrate Ref. | |
| Special habitats | Beds: sea grass; Coral Reefs; |
| Special habitats Ref. | Unsworth, R.K., L.M. Nordlund and L.C. Cullen-Unsworth, 2018 |
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| Associations | solitary; |
| Associated with | Cleaned by Pederson's cleaner shrimp (Periclimenes pedersoni) and goby (Gobiosoma evelynae and others) as observed on the coral reefs in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles (Ref. 36810). Usually solitary and territorial. |
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| Parasitism |
| Tipo De Alimentación | mainly animals (troph. 2.8 and up) |
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| Feeding type Ref. | Bardach, J.E., 1959 |
| Hábito De Alimentación | hunting macrofauna (predator) |
| Feeding habit Ref. | Randall, J.E., 1967 |
| Estimation method | Muestra original | Población no pescada | Observación | ||
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| Troph | s.e. | Troph | s.e. | ||
| De la composición de la dieta | 3.84 | 0.27 | 3.87 | 0.63 | Troph of juv./adults from 2 studies. |
| De tipos individuales de alimento | 4.15 | 0.67 | Trophic level estimated from a number of food items using a randomized resampling routine. | ||
| Referencia | Randall, J.E., 1967 | ||||