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Table 2 Gut content components of fishes collected on the sandy beach at Fukiagehama

From: Food habits of fishes on an exposed sandy beach at Fukiagehama, South-West Kyushu Island, Japan

Category

Food item (codea)

Zooplankton

Calanoid copepods (Cc), Ostracods (Os), Harpacticoid copepods (Hc), Unidentified copepods (Uc), Jellyfishes (Je), Mysid larvae (Ml)

Mysids

Swimming mysids (Sm), Sand-bu rowing mysids (Bm)

Amphipods

Gammaridean amphipods (Ga), Hyperiidean amphipods (Hy)

Isopods

Isopods (Is)

Decapods

Crabs (Cr), Shrimps (Sh), Callianassids (Ca)

Mollusks

Gastropods (Gp), Bivalves (Bi)

Polychaetes

Polychaetes (Po)

Fishes

Fishes (Fi)

Insects

Terrestrial insects (Ti)

Others (items regarded as separate units in the dietary overlap calculation)

Eggs (Eg), Laganins (La), Cumaceans (Cu), Aquatic plants (Ap), Lepadomorphs (Le)

  1. aDescriptive codes used in Fig. 2