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Menidia menidia (Tidewater silverside; Northern silverside; Green smelt; Atlantic silverside)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Atlantic silverside (Menidia menidia) also known as spearing in the north east of the United States, is a small species of fish from the West Atlantic, ranging from the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada to northeastern Florida in USA. It is one of the most common fish in the Chesapeake Bay and in the Barnegat Bay. They are a common subject of scientific research because of their sensitivity to environmental changes. The Atlantic silverside’s predators are larger predatory fish – striped bass, blue fish, Atlantic mackerel – and many shore birds, including egrets, terns, cormorants, and gulls.
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Attributes

Maximum Longevity [2]  2 years
Migration [1]  Migratory

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Boiga dendrophila (Gold-ringed Cat Snake, Mangrove Snake)[3]
Euterpina acutifrons[4]
Pseudodiaptomus pelagicus[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Cynoscion regalis (Weakfish)[3]
Morone saxatilis (Striper bass)[3]
Mustelus canis (Dogfish)[3]
Pomatomus saltatrix (Tailor run)[3]

Consumers

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
4Trophic relationships and seasonal utilization of salt-marsh creeks by zooplanktivorous fishes, Dennis M. Allen, William S. Johnson & Virginia Ogburn-Matthews, Environmental Biology of Fishes 42: 37-50, 1995.
5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0