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Pellonula vorax (Bigtoothed pellonula)

Synonyms: Pellonula stanleyana; Pollonula vorax
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Anadromous

Prey / Diet

Nematopalaemon hastatus (estuarine prawn)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Galeoides decadactylus (Threadfin)1
Pomadasys jubelini (burro)1
Pseudotolithus elongatus (Niger corb)1
Pseudotolithus senegalensis (Ladyfish)1
Pseudotolithus typus (Bar)1

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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
♦ 2Trophic Relationships of the White Estuarine Prawn Nematopalaemon hastatus (Aurivillius, 1898) (Decapoda, Palaemonidae), Israel E. MARIOGHAE, Rev. Hydrobiol. trop. 22 (4) : 289-291 (1989)
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