Food and Feeding Habits Summary Mustelus manazo
 
Main Ref. Yamaguchi, A. and T. Taniuchi, 2000
Fish stage juv./adults Mean length NG
Sample size 145 Percent empty
Country Japan Locality off Tsushima, Shimonoseki. May 1994-May 1996.
Period
  • January
  • February
  • March
  • April
  • May
  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October
  • November
  • December
Highlighted items on the list are known Feeding Periods of Mustelus manazo
Diet percent Food I Food II Food III Prey stage Item Name Comments
8.30 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Mustelus manazo Sardinops melanosticta 0.7 Cololabis saira 0.6 Carangidae 0.3 Gobiidae 0.1
7.50 % zoobenthos benth. crust. crabs juv./adults Dardanus arrosor Galatheidae 2.3 Dardanus arrosor 1.8 Paguridae 1.7
53.80 % zoobenthos benth. crust. crabs juv./adults Charybdis bimaculata Xanthidae 1.8 Platymaia finabriata 0.4 Majidae 2.1 Carcinoplax longimana 4.2 Eucrate crenata 1.3 Charybdis bimaculata 7.3 Liocarcinus corrugatus 2.6 Potunus haani 0.7 Randallia eburnea 0.8 Leucosiidae 0.3 Pinnotheridae 0.2 Cancridae 0.7 Mursia trispinosa 0.9 Calappidae 0.2 Dorippe frascone 0.2 Podocatactes hamifer 0.2
0.30 % zoobenthos benth. crust. isopods juv./adults isopods
8.40 % zoobenthos benth. crust. n.a./other benth. crustaceans juv./adults crustacean crustacean fragments
1.50 % zoobenthos worms polychaetes juv./adults polychaetes
18.50 % zoobenthos benth. crust. shrimps/prawns juv./adults Crangon affinis Argis lar 8.6 Crangon affinis 1.4 Penaeidae 4.7 Nephrops japonicus 0.5
1.60 % nekton cephalopods squids/cuttlefish juv./adults squids/cuttlefish
0.10 % zoobenthos benth. crust. stomatopods juv./adults Oratosquilla oratoria Oratosquilla oratoria
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