Food resource partitioning and trophic morphology of Brevoortia gunteri and B. patronus

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1102-1111

  Castillo Rivera, M ^a   Kobelkowsky, A ^a   Zamayoa, V ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

branchial apparatus; competition; functional morphology; menhaden; microphagy; trophic ecology

Indexed keywords

BREVOORTIA GUNTERI; BREVOORTIA PATRONUS;

EID: 0030468457     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfbi.1996.0239     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Chao, L. N. & Musick, J. A. (1977). Life history, feeding habits, and functional morphology of juvenile sciaenid fishes in the York River estuary, Virginia. Fishery Bulletin 75, 657-702.
2. Chen, W., Govoni, J. J. & Warlen, S. M. (1992). Comparison of feeding and growth of larval round herring Etrumeus teres and gulf menhaden Brevoortia patronus. Fishery Bulletin 90, 183-189.
3. Davis, B. M. & Foltz, J. W. (1991). Food of blueback herring and threadfin shad in Jocassee Reservoir, South Carolina. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 120, 605-613.
4. Deegan, L. A., Peterson, B. J. & Portier, R. (1990). Stable isotopes and cellulase activity as evidence for detritus as a food source for juvenile Gulf Menhaden. Estuaries 13, 14-19.
5. 665) para estimar el estado biótico de la laguna de Pueblo Viejo, Ver. Universidad y Ciencia 3, 31-42.
6. Desselle, W. J., Poirrier, M. A., Rogers, J. S. & Cashner, R. C. (1978). A discriminant functions analysis of sunfish (Lepomis) food habits and feeding niche segregation in the lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana estuary. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 107, 713-719.
7. Friedland, K. D. (1985). Functional morphology of the branchial basket structures associated with feeding in the Atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus (Pisces: Clupeidae). Copeia 1985, 1018-1027.
8. Goldschmid, A. (1982). Oekomorphologische Trennung zweier mediterraner Schleimfischarten: Blennius incognitus Bath, 1968 und B. zvonimiri Kolombatovic, 1982 (Blenniidae; Teleostei; Pisces). Zeitschrift für zoologische Systematik Evolutionsforschung 20, 302-316.
9. Govoni, J. J., Hoss, D. E. & Chester, A. J. (1983). Comparative feeding of three species of larval fishes in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Brevoortia patronus, Leiostomus xanthurus, and Micropogonias undulatus. Marine Ecology Progress Series 13, 189-199.
10. Hacunda, J. S. (1981). Trophic relationships among demersal fishes in a coastal area of the Gulf of Maine. Fishery Bulletin 79, 775-788.
11. Harnois, É., Couture, R. & Magnan, P. (1992). Variation saisonnière dans la répartition des ressources alimentaires entre cinq espèces de poissons en fonction de la disponibilité des proies. Canadian Journal of Zoology 70, 796-803.
12. Hessen, D. O., Andersen, R., Hindar, K. & Skurdal, J. (1988). Food selection and competition in salmonids as reflected by gill raker number and morphology. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 4, 121-129.
13. Hyslop, E. J. (1980). Stomach contents analysis - a review of methods and their application. Journal of Fish Biology 17, 411-429.
14. + stone loach, Noemacheilus barbatulus (L.), and bullhead, Cottus gobio L. Journal of Fish Biology 21, 187-196.
15. Lavin, P. A. & McPhail, J. D. (1986). Adaptive divergence of trophic phenotype among freshwater populations of the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 43, 2455-2463.
16. Livingston, R. J. (1982). Trophic organization of fishes in a coastal seagrass system. Marine Ecology Progress Series 7, 1-12.
17. MacNeill, D. B. & Brandt, S. B. (1990). Ontogenetic shifts in gill-raker morphology and predicted prey capture efficiency of the alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus. Copeia 1990, 164-171.
18. Mattson, S. (1992). Food and feeding habits of fish species over a soft sublittoral bottom in the northeast Atlantic. 3. Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus (L.)) (Gadidae). Sarsia 77, 33-45.
19. Miller, R. V. (1969). Constancy of epibranchial organs and fourth epibranchial bones within species groups of clupeid fishes. Copeia 1969, 308-312.
20. Moyle, P. B. & Cech Jr., J. J. (1996). Fishes. An Introduction to Ichthyology, 3rd edn. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
21. Nelson, G. J. (1967). Gill arches of teleostean fishes of the family Clupeidae. Copeia 1967, 389-399.
22. Paine, M. D., Dodson, J. J. & Power, G. (1982). Habitat and food resource partitioning among four species of darters (Percidae: Etheostoma) in a southern Ontario stream. Canadian Journal of Zoology 60, 1635-1641.
23. Pohla, H. & Goldschmid, A. (1989). Resource partitioning of closely related cyprinid fish mediated by their gill raker morphology. Fortschritte der Zoologie 35, 513-516.
24. Pohla, H., Palzenberger, M. & Goldschmid, A. (1986). Der Kiemenreusenapparat europäischer Karpfenfischarten (Teleostei, Cyprinidae). Oesterreichs Fischerei 39, 94-104.
25. Ross, S. T. (1986). Resource partitioning in fish assemblages: a review field studies. Copeia 1986, 352-388.
26. Santamarina, J. (1993). Feeding ecology of a vertebrate assemblage inhabiting a stream of NW Spain (Riobo: Ulla basin). Hydrobiologia 252, 175-191.
27. Sokal, R. R. & Rohlf, F. J. (1995). Biometry, 3rd edn. New York: Freeman.
28. Stoner, A. W. & Livingston, R. J. (1984). Ontogenetic patterns in diet and feeding morphology in sympatric sparid fishes from seagrass meadows. Copeia 1984, 174-187.
29. Tatsuoka, M. M. (1988). Multivariate Analysis, 2nd edn. New York: Macmillan.
30. Werner, E. E. (1979). Niche partitioning by food size in fish communities. In Predator-prey systems in fisheries management (Clepper, H. E., ed.), pp. 311-322. Washington D.C.: Sport Fishing Institute.
31. Whitehead, P. J. (1985). FAO species catalogue. Vol. 7. Clupeoid fishes of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the herrings, sardines, pilchards, sprats, anchovies and wolfherrings. Part #1-Chirocentridae, Clupeidae and Pristigasteridae. FAO Fisheries Synopses 125, Vol. 7, Pt 1: 303 pp.
32. Yap, S. Y. (1988). Food resource utilization partitioning of fifteen fish species at Bukit Merah Reservoir, Malaysia. Hydrobiologia 157, 143-160.