Diet Overlap

Trichiurus margarites (hairtail)
Trichiurus lepturus (Atlantic Cutlassfish)

Common Diet

Abralia andamanica
Acetes chinensis (northern mauxia shrimp)
Acropoma japonicum (Blackmouth splitfin)
Bregmaceros nectabanus (Australian codlet)
Bregmaceros rarisquamosus (Bigeye codlet)
Decapterus maruadsi (White-tipped mackerel scad)
Encrasicholina heteroloba (Shorthead anchovy)
Engraulis japonicus (Japanese anchovy)
Equulites lineolatus (lined ponyfish)
Leptochela gracilis (lesser glass shrimp)
Sardinella jussieu (Mauritian sardinella)
Stolephorus commersonnii (Commerson's anchovy)
Thryssa setirostris (Orangemouth thryssa)

Common Habitat

Japan
Pacific, Northwest

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Feeding ecology of hairtail Trichiurus margarites and largehead hairtail Trichiurus lepturus in the Beibu Gulf, the South China Sea, YAN Yunrong (颜云榕), HOU Gang (侯刚), CHEN Junlan (陈骏岚), LU Huosheng (卢伙胜), JIN Xianshi (金显仕), Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, Vol. 29 No. 1, P. 174-183, 2011
♦ 2Feeding habits and ontogenetic diet shift of hairtail fish (Trichiurus lepturus) in East China Sea and Yelow Sea, ZHANG Bo, Marine Fisheries Research, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2004