Food Composition and Dietary Overlap of the Lionfish Species in Iskenderun Bay
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Published:2022-08-16
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Page:228-239
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ISSN:2458-8989
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Container-title:Natural and Engineering Sciences
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language:en
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Short-container-title:NESciences
Author:
DEMİRCİ Burçin1, DEMİRHAN Sefa Ayhan2
Affiliation:
1. ISKENDERUN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY 2. İSKENDERUN TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Abstract
The food composition and dietary overlap of the Pterois volitans and P. miles were studied in the İskenderun Bay. The main prey groups found in the stomachs of the P. volitans and P. miles were fishes and crustaceans. The study has shown that the Niche overlap-Pianka's index of these species was 83,2%. Most of the stomach contents for both species were not identified. Fish and shirimps were found in the stomachs contents of both species freqently. However reef parts, moss residuals, molluscs shell parts and crab parts were found in the stomachs content for both species rarely. Chlorophthalmus agassizi, Uranoscopus scaber, Helicolenus dactylopterus, Serranidae, Sparidae and Scorpaenidae members have been identified as stomach contents of P. volitans. Similarly C. agassizi was identified in the stomach contents of P. miles. Conspicuously, juvenile lionfish and body parts of juvenile lionfishes (dorsal fin and spines) were found in 4 specimens stomachs of P. miles.
Publisher
Iskenderun Technical University
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science
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