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Table 5. Summary of other windowpane diet studies for the
coastal Middle Atlantic Bight. (Major prey taxa ranked in relative order
of importance by: mean percent frequency of occurrence (FO), mean percent
contribution to total stomach content volume (TV), and mean percent contribution
to total stomach content weight (TW), as available from each source.)
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Source
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Study Area
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Year(s)
(month(s), season(s),
and/or frequency)
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No. Examined
(size [TL cm]) or
age range, mean size)
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Primary Prey in Order of Importance
by FO, IRI, TDW, TN, TV, and/or TW
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| Moore (1947) |
Long Island - Block Island Sounds |
1943-44 (monthly) |
654 (18-34) |
TV -- Neomysis, Crangon,
chaetognaths, and larval fish (sand lance and silver hake). |
| Smith (1950) |
Block Island Sound |
1948-49 (seasonally) |
Unknown, ~200 |
TW -- Neomysis, small fish, and squid. |
| Richards (1963) |
Long Island Sound |
1955-56 (seasonally) |
Sand station - 49 (3-13) |
FO -- Neomysis and Crangon. |
| Mud station - 25 (3-13) |
FO -- Neomysis. |
| de Sylva et al. (1962) |
Delaware Bay shore |
1958-60 (Feb-Jul) |
31 (5-17) |
FO -- Neomysis, Crangon,
and copepods. |
| Langton and Bowman (1981) |
New Jersey - North Carolina |
1969-72 (spring/fall) |
163 (mean = 25) |
TW -- Neomysis, pandalid shrimp, Crangon,
and other decapod crustaceans. |
| Kimmel (1973) |
Chesapeake Bay mouth |
1971-72 (spring) |
16 (7-17)
|
TV -- Neomysis, larval bay anchovy,
and Crangon. |
| 18 (19-24) |
TV -- Neomysis, Crangon,
and bay anchovy. |
| Hickey (1975) |
Eastern Long Island |
1972 (Apr-Dec) |
120 (6-26) |
TV -- Neomysis, Crangon,
fish eggs, larvae, and "bait." |
| Festa (1979) |
Little Egg Harbor, NJ |
1972-77 (summer/fall) |
4 (15-34) |
TV -- Crangon, sand lance, Neomysis,
and detritus.
FO -- Detritus, Neomysis, and Crangon. |
| Allen et al. (1978) |
Hereford Inlet, NJ |
1973-77 (monthly) |
60 (6-27) |
FO -- Mysids, Crangon, amphipods, and decapod
crab larvae. |
| Steimle and Terranova (1991) |
New York Bight apex |
1982-85 (seasonally) |
131 (mean = ~27) |
FO -- Mysids (Neomysis mostly), Crangon,
and Dichelopandalus leptocerus. |
| Warkentine and Rachlin (1988) |
New Jersey coast |
Unreported |
Unreported |
FO -- Neomysis. |
| Carlson (1991) |
New Haven Harbor, CT |
Sep 1989 - Nov 1990 (monthly) |
96 (11-34) |
TW -- Crangon, bay anchovy, and naked
goby (Gobiosoma bosc).
FO -- Crangon, bay anchovy, goby, and Neomysis. |
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