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Ichthyofauna of a Kenyan seagrass bed and the diet of Plotosus lineatus (Gazi Bay, August 1993)
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Van Waeyenberge J.; Mees J.; Marine Biology Section, Zoology Institute. Ugent: Belgium; (2016): Ichthyofauna of a Kenyan seagrass bed and the diet of Plotosus lineatus (Gazi Bay, August 1993). https://doi.org/10.14284/113
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 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
List and counts of observed fish species and prey spectra for 15 cat fish sampled in August 1993 at Gazi Bay (Kenya). The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Van Waeyenberge, J. (1994). De visfauna van een Kenyaans zeegrasveld en het dieet van de top-predator Plotosus lineatus; The ichthyofauna of a Kenyan seagrass bed and the diet of the top-predator Plotosus lineatus. Thesis. University of Gent, Zoology Institute, Marine Biology Section: Ghent. 16 pp. more
From this short investigation on the prey spectrum of the cat fish Plotosus lineatus, we can conclude that they prey for more than 95% on (a few species of) amphipods and only show limited predation on crabs. Other prey items (shrimp and polychaeta) can be neglected. Scope Themes: Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Fish Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Ichthyofauna, Seagrass bed, Stomach contents, ISW, Kenya, Gazi Bay, Amphipoda, Brachyura, Caridea, Pisces, Plotosus lineatus (Thunberg, 1787), Polychaeta Geographical coverage ISW, Kenya, Gazi Bay [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
August 1993 Taxonomic coverage
Parameters
Ash-free dry weight (AFDW) biomass Count of fish Diet composition of fish Fish length Wet weight of fish Contributors
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Parent dataset: Historical Kenyan-Belgian research datasets (1873-1999), more
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Based on this dataset
Van Waeyenberge, J. (1994). De visfauna van een Kenyaans zeegrasveld en het dieet van de top-predator Plotosus lineatus; The ichthyofauna of a Kenyan seagrass bed and the diet of the top-predator Plotosus lineatus. Thesis. University of Gent, Zoology Institute, Marine Biology Section: Ghent. 16 pp., more
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2013-10-30
Information last updated: 2016-04-21
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