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Food and Feeding Habits Summary Squatina dumeril
 
Main Ref. Bowman, R.E., C.E. Stillwell, W.L. Michaels and M.D. Grosslein, 2000
Fish stage recruits/juv. Mean length 58.00 NG
Sample size 24 Percent empty 12.5
Country USA Locality Middle Atlantic, offshore south and inshore north of Cape Hatteras.
Period
  • January
  • February
  • March
  • April
  • May
  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October
  • November
  • December
Highlighted items on the list are known Feeding Periods of Squatina dumeril
Diet percent Food I Food II Food III Prey stage Item Name Comments
63.70 % nekton finfish bony fish juv./adults Peprilus triacanthus Anchoa hepsetus (0.3%), Merluccius bilinearis (3.3%), Leiostomus xanthurus (6.6%), Peprilus triacanthus (15.5%), unidentified Osteichthyes (37.1%) and Cancer irroratus (<0.1%) and Panguridae (<0.1%).
8.60 % detritus detritus carcasses n.a./others Animal remains Animal remains.
0.20 % zoobenthos mollusks n.a./other cephalopods juv./adults Cephalopoda Unidentified Cephalopoda.
27.50 % nekton cephalopods squids/cuttlefish juv./adults Loligo sp. Loligo sp.
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