Food and Feeding Habits Summary Eleotris pisonis
 
Main Ref. Teixeira, R.L., 1994
Fish stage recruits/juv. Mean length 7.90 TL
Sample size 162 Percent empty 12
Country Brazil Locality Mundaú/Manguaba lagoonal system, Alagoas, northeast Brazil
Period
  • January
  • February
  • March
  • April
  • May
  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October
  • November
  • December
Highlighted items on the list are known Feeding Periods of Eleotris pisonis
Diet percent Food I Food II Food III Prey stage Item Name Comments
18.00 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Diapterus rhombeus 1.4% Anchoviella lepidenstole, 6.7% Diapterus rhombeus, 4% Eucinostomus menopterus, 0.3% Eleoptris pisonis, 2.5% Gobionellus boleosoma, 0.6% Gobionellus sp., 0.9% unid. Fish
55.30 % zoobenthos mollusks gastropods juv./adults Neritina virginea 55.4% Neritina virginea, 0.1% unid. Gastropoda
0.30 % zoobenthos insects insects larvae Diptera Diptera and Odonata
5.50 % zoobenthos worms polychaetes juv./adults polychaetes
20.90 % zoobenthos benth. crust. shrimps/prawns juv./adults Palaemon pandaliformis 11.1% Palaemon pandaliformis, 1.3% Palaemon northopi, 2.2% Macrobrachium acanthurus, 5.3% Macrobrachium sp., 0.1% Callinectes sp., 0.8% unid. Crustacea
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