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The Food of Seriola Dumerili (Pisces: Carangidae) in the Catalan Sea (Western Mediterranean)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. Matallanas ,
M. Casadevall ,
M. Carrasson ,
J. Bolx  and
V. Fernandez
J. Matallanas
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal y Ecologia, Universidad Autbnoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra E-08193, Barcelona, Spain.
M. Casadevall
Affiliation:
Unitat de Biologia Animal, Departamento de Ciencies Ambientals, Universitat de Girona, 17100 Girona, Spain.
M. Carrasson
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal y Ecologia, Universidad Autbnoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra E-08193, Barcelona, Spain.
J. Bolx
Affiliation:
DARP, S. Carles de la Rapita, Tarragona, Spain
V. Fernandez
Affiliation:
Unitat de Biologia Animal, Departamento de Ciencies Ambientals, Universitat de Girona, 17100 Girona, Spain.
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Stomachs of 385 specimens of Seriola dumerili (Risso, 1810) have been analysed. Their coefficient of repletion is 50·8% in juveniles and 90·3% in adults. Juveniles feed almost exclusively on Teleostei with Engraulis encrasicholus and Sardina pilchardus as the main food; Cephalopoda (Loligo vulgaris and Sepiola sp.) and Crustacea (Squilla mantis) are also eaten. Adults feed on a great diversity of Teleostei headed by S. pilchardus and Merluccius merluccius.

According to Smith-Vaniz (1986)Seriola dumerili is both epibenthic and pelagic, occurring at 18–72 m in small to moderate schools. Juveniles are associated with flotsam in oceanic or offshore neritic waters. Adults often live near reefs or at deep off-shore holes or drop-offs. It is found from the Mediterranean and the Bay of Biscay to South Africa, from Nova Scotia to Brazil, and also in the Arabian Gulf, Australia, Japan and the Hawaiian Islands.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 75 , Issue 1 , February 1995 , pp. 257 - 260
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1995

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