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Brevoortia aurea (Brazilian menhaden)

Synonyms: Clupanodon aureus
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Parque Atlantico Mar Chiquita Nature Reserve VI 706059 Cordoba, Argentina  

Prey / Diet

Erodona mactroides[1]
Neomysis americana (Mysid shrimp)[1]
Ruppia maritima (Ditch grass)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Micropogonias furnieri (Whitemouth drummer)[1]
Podiceps major (great grebe)[2]
Podiceps major major (Great Grebe)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Mazocraeoides georgei[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Food web of a SW Atlantic shallow coastal lagoon: spatial environmental variability does not impose substantial changes in the trophic structure, Laura Rodríguez-Graña, Danilo Calliari, Daniel Conde, Javier Sellanes, Roberto Urrutia, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 362: 69–83, 2008
♦ 2MAJOR, P. (2010). Foraging ecology of the great grebe podicephorus major in Mar Chiquita lagoon (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Ardeola, 57(1), 133-141.
♦ 3FORAGING ECOLOGY OF THE GREAT GREBE PODICEPHORUS MAJOR IN MAR CHIQUITA LAGOON (BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA), María Laura JOSENS, María Susana BÓ and Marco FAVERO, Ardeola 57(1), 2010, 133-141
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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