Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Embiotocidae > Rhacochilus > Rhacochilus vacca

Rhacochilus vacca (Pile surfperch; Pile seaperch; Pile perch; Dusky sea-perch)

Synonyms: Damalichthys argyrosomus; Damalichthys vacca; Ditrema vacca; Embiotoca argyrosoma; Phanerodon vacca
Language: Haida; Mandarin Chinese; Polish; Spanish

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Artedius lateralis (Smooth-head sculpin)1
Bucephala islandica (Barrow's Goldeneye)1

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Lacistorhynchus tenuis[5]
Neobenedenia melleni[5]
Pseudoallencotyla pricei[5]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit 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.
2Food Web Relationships of Northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca : a Synthesis of the Available Knowledge, Charles A. Simenstad, Bruce S. Miller, Carl F. Nyblade, Kathleen Thornburgh, and Lewis J. Bledsoe, EPA-600 7-29-259 September 1979
3Szoboszlai AI, Thayer JA, Wood SA, Sydeman WJ, Koehn LE (2015) Forage species in predator diets: synthesis of data from the California Current. Ecological Informatics 29(1): 45-56. Szoboszlai AI, Thayer JA, Wood SA, Sydeman WJ, Koehn LE (2015) Data from: Forage species in predator diets: synthesis of data from the California Current. Dryad Digital Repository.
4Habitat Partitioning by Three Species of Dolphins in Santa Monica Bay, California, Maddalena Bearzi, Coastal Environmental Quality Initiative, 07-08-2003
5Gibson, 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