Animalia > Chordata > Cyprinodontiformes > Fundulidae > Fundulus > Fundulus confluentus

Fundulus confluentus (Killifish; Marsh killifish)

Synonyms: Fundulus bartrami; Fundulus chaplini; Fundulus ocellaris
Language: Finnish; Mandarin Chinese; Russian

Attributes

Adult Length [1]  3.15 inches (8 cm)
Brood Dispersal [1]  In the open
Brood Egg Substrate [1]  Phytophils
Brood Guarder [1]  No
Litter Size [1]  250
Maximum Longevity [1]  2 years
Diet [2]  Omnivore, Planktivore, Detritivore
Female Maturity [1]  6 months 3 days

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Lophodytes cucullatus (Hooded Merganser)[3]
Mycteria americana (Wood Stork)[4]
Sciaenops ocellatus (Spotted bass)[3]
Tringa melanoleuca (Greater Yellowlegs)[3]
Tringa semipalmata (Willet)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Eustrongylides ignotus[5]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Frimpong, 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.
2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
3Cirtwill, Alyssa R.; Eklöf, Anna (2018), Data from: Feeding environment and other traits shape species' roles in marine food webs, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1mv20r6
4Jorrit 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.
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