Yip, M.Y. and Lim, A.C.O. and Chong, V.C. and Lawson, J.M. and Foster, S.J. (2015) Food and feeding habits of the seahorses Hippocampus spinosissimus and Hippocampus trimaculatus (Malaysia). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 95 (05). pp. 1033-1040. ISSN 0025-3154, DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315414001660.
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Two seahorse species, Hippocampus spinosissimus and Hippocampus trimaculatus, sampled in east and west coastal waters of Peninsular Malaysia, fed mostly on crustacean prey; small caridean shrimps and amphipods as adults (both species), and copepods and larval meroplankton as juveniles (for H. trimaculatus only). The similar short relative gut length (~0.4) of both species is consistent with a carnivorous diet. Both species are considered specialists in prey selection, focusing on slow-moving epibenthic, hyperbenthic and canopy-dwelling crustaceans that dwell on the mud-sand seabed, or are associated with seagrass or mangrove areas. In this light, seahorses with their juveniles in shallow waters are vulnerable to coastal reclamation and development.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Crustacean prey; Diet overlap; Food habits; Ontogenetic shift; PCA; Preponderance index; Relative gut length; Stomach content; Syngnathidae |
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QH Natural history |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Institute of Biological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Sep 2018 04:35 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Sep 2018 04:35 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/19364 |
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