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Pellonula leonensis (Guinean sprat; Muffin sprat; Sardine; Smalltoothed pellonula)

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Infraspecies

Pellonula leonensis afzeliusi
Pellonula leonensis leonensis

Attributes

Migration [1]  Anadromous

Prey / Diet

Coptodon guineensis (Guinean tilapia)[2]
Ethmalosa fimbriata (Bonga shad)[2]
Pellonula leonensis (Guinean sprat)[3]
Sardinella maderensis (Madeiran sardinella)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Elops lacerta (Atlantic ladyfish)[3]
Pellonula leonensis (Guinean sprat)[3]
Schilbe mystus (Silver catfish)[4]
Sphyraena afra (Guinean barracuda)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Pseudoneobivagina pelotretis[3]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, 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
♦ 2Comparative analysis of trophic structure and interactions of two tropical lagoons, M.C. Villanueva, P. Lalèyè, J.-J. Albaret, R. Laë, L. Tito de Morais and J. Moreau, Ecological Modelling, Vol. 197, Issues 3-4 , 25 August 2006, P. 461-477
♦ 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.
♦ 4"The food and feeding habits of Eutropius niloticus (Ruppell), family Schilbeidae (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes) in Lake Kainji, Nigeria", Akinola A. Olatunde, Hydrobiologia February 1978, Volume 57, Issue 3, pp 197-207
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