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Food and Feeding Habits Summary Tursiops aduncus
 
Main Ref. Amir, O.A., P. Berggren, S.G.M. Ndaro and N.S. Jiddawi, 2005
Fish stage juv./adults Mean length 188.00 BL
Sample size 26 Percent empty
Country Tanzania Locality Unguja Island, Zanzibar
Period
  • January
  • February
  • March
  • April
  • May
  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October
  • November
  • December
Highlighted items on the list are known Feeding Periods of Tursiops aduncus
Diet percent Food I Food II Food III Prey stage Item Name Comments
0.40 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Parascorpaena sp.
0.30 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Cephalopholis sonnerati
0.20 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Chrysoblephus puniceus
0.20 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Polyipnus indicus
14.20 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Synaphobranchus kaupii
0.30 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Saurida gracilis
0.10 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Benthodesmus sp.
1.90 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults unspecified fish
5.50 % nekton cephalopods squids/cuttlefish juv./adults Loligo duvauceli
7.90 % nekton cephalopods squids/cuttlefish juv./adults Sepioteuthis lessoniana
3.10 % nekton cephalopods squids/cuttlefish juv./adults Sepia latimanus
4.60 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Apogon apogonides
0.10 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Apogon aureus
0.50 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Glossanodon sp.
1.00 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Decapterus macarellus
0.60 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Alepes djedaba
0.20 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Carangoides sp.
0.30 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Chlorophthalmus punctatus
0.70 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Citharoides sp.
0.80 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Rechias wallacei
0.10 % nektonn finfish bony fish juv./adults Sardinops sp.
17.90 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Uroconger lepturus
1.60 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Conger cinereus
4.20 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Lutjanus lutjanus
2.60 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Aluterus monoceros
0.20 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Parapercis robinsoni
8.30 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Muraenesox bagio
3.00 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Gymnothorax sp.
1.10 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Uropterygius sp.
0.50 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Nemipterus sp.
0.40 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Brachysomophis crocodilinus
0.10 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Brotula multibarbata
0.30 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Centopyge multispinis
0.10 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Pomacentrus trichourus
0.30 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Cynoglossus sp.
0.40 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Dactyloptena peterseni
1.40 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Thyrsitoides marleyi
0.30 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Istigobius decoratus
0.20 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Pomadasys stridens
0.90 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Sargocentron sp.
0.20 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Sargocentron sp.
0.40 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Leiognathus equula
6.50 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Lethrinus crocineus
0.90 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Pristipomoides filamentosus
5.20 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Lutjanus fulvus
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