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Food of Eight Northwest Atlantic Pleuronectiform Fishes
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1981
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Description:The food of eight species of pleuronectid fishes, occurring in the northwest Atlantic, from Cape Hatteras, N.C., lo Nova Scotia have been investigated for the years 1969-72. Gulf Stream flounder, Citharichthys arctifrons, are annelid and arthropod predators. Summer and fourspot flounders, Paralichthys dentatus and P. oblongus, prey on fish, squid, and arthropods. The diet of the windowpane, Schophthalmus aquosus, consists of arthropods with mysids, pandalid shrimp, and sand shrimp being especially important prey. Witch flounder, Giyptocephalus cynoglossus. are predators of benthic invertebrates, preying heavily on annelids. The primary prey of American plaice, Hippoglossoides platessoides, is echinoderms. Yellowtail flounder, Limanda ferruginea, are annelid and amphipod predators. Winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus, prey on annelids, coelenterates, and bivalve molluscs.
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