Diet of Tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis, from Mississippi Coastal Waters

Diet of Tripletail, Lobotes Surinamensis, from Mississippi

The diet of tripletail, Lobotes .I'urinamellsis, collected from the Mississippi Sound and Mississippi's offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico between April and September 1995-1997, was investigated through analysis of stomach contents. Of 178 tripJctail stomachs examined, 136 (76%) contained prey items, and 42 (24%) were empty. TripletaiJ with prey in their stomachs ranged from 183 to 787111111...

First Record of Bonefish, Albula vulpes, from Mississippi Coastal Waters

Grouped Tooth Replacement in the Oral Jaws of the Tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis (Perciformes: Lobotidae), with a Discussion of Its Proposed Relationship to Datnioides

Lobotes surinamensis is a widely distributed marine perciform and is the sole member of the family Lobotidae, which has unclear phylogenetic affinities. In this paper we describe and illustrate a mode of tooth replacement in Lobotes that we name ‘‘grouped’’ tooth replacement. Lateral oral teeth are replaced intraosseously, i.e., developing replacement teeth can clearly be seen beneath them with...

Diet of kingfish (Scomberomorus commerson) in Iranian coastal waters of Persian Gulf and Oman Sea

Diet of kingfish was examined in the Iranian coastal waters in the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea during the year 2005-08. With the examination of 1655 kingfish stomachs caught by drifting gillnets, it was revealed that this species fed three groups of preys including fish, Cephalopods, and Crustaceans, of which the fish group accounted for the highest in the frequency of number (99.3%) and in the f...

Short communication: Study on Blennies fishes (Blenniidae Rafinesque 1810) from Makoran coastal waters (Southeast of Iran)

     The family blenniidae comprises 58 genera and 406 species according to Eschmeyer and Fong (2018). Members of the family Blenniidae are small, scale-less and very agile fishes, inhabiting inshore, sub-tidal rocky substrata, and rock pools of the inter-tidal zone of tropical and sub-tropical marine waters (Randall, 1995). A few species are also reported from brackish and freshwaters (Hastin...