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Alternate Title
Food of the Atlantic Croaker, Micropogonias undulatus, from Mississippi Sound and the Gulf of Mexico
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The diet of the Atlantic croaker from Mississippi Sound has been examined for the first time. Over 83 taxa were encountered, or more than were reported from croaker in any other region. We also found 60 taxa, 36 of which overlapped with the above, in croaker from various offshore stations in the Gulf of Mexico. In Mississippi Sound the frequency of occurrence of items revealed primarily crustaceans followed by polychaetes, molluscs, fishes, and less common items, and, in the open Gulf, molluscs appeared slightly more often than in inshore croaker and than polychaetes in offshore fish. The diets were assessed according to length of fish, season, depth of water, and locality.
First Page
145
Last Page
152
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Erratum
Addenda and errata page attached to end of original article (5/17/2016)
Recommended Citation
Overstreet, R. M. and R. W. Heard.
1978.
Food of the Atlantic Croaker, Micropogonias undulatus, from Mississippi Sound and the Gulf of Mexico.
Gulf Research Reports
6
(2):
145-152.
Retrieved from https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr/vol6/iss2/5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18785/grr.0602.05
