Feeding habits of grey gurnard, Eutrigla gurnardus (L., 1758), along the Catalan coast (northwestern Mediterranean)

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1994 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Hydrobiologia, volume 273, pages 57-66 (issn: 0018-8158, eissn: 1573-5117,

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Authors: R. Moreno-Amich;

doi: 10.1007/bf00126768

Feeding habits of grey gurnard, Eutrigla gurnardus (L., 1758), along the Catalan coast (northwestern Mediterranean)

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The stomach content of 589 specimens of Eutrigla gurnardus (collected at quarterly intervals) have been analyzed to determine diet according to fish size and season. The results show that crustaceans (% No = 93%, %Weight = 81%) are the basic food and that teleostean fishes are quite important in the adult diet. The importance of nycthemeral migrators decreases significantly as size increases, whilst the importance of benthic prey increases inversely. In every size, the feeding intensity is greater at midday than in the morning. Larger prey are eaten in winter than in summer although feeding intensity is lower in winter.

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