Diet Overlap

Common Diet

Crangon septemspinosa (sevenspine bay shrimp)
Doryteuthis pealeii (longfin inshore squid)
Etrumeus acuminatus (Atlantic red herring)
Fundulus heteroclitus (mummichog)
Leiostomus xanthurus (Spot croaker)
Neomysis americana (Mysid shrimp)

Common Habitat

Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic, Northwest
Atlantic, Western Central
Canada
Cape Cod National Seashore
Gateway National Recreation Area
Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf
Scotian Shelf
United States

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1 Steimle FW, Pikanowski RA, McMillan DG, Zetlin CA, Wilk SJ. 2000. Demersal Fish and American Lobster Diets in the Lower Hudson - Raritan Estuary. US Dep Commer, NOAA Tech Memo NMFS NE 161; 106 p.
♦ 2Latour, Robert J., et al. "The trophic dynamics of summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) in Chesapeake Bay." Fishery Bulletin 106.1 (2008): 47+. Academic OneFile. Web. 23 July 2010
♦ 3Food of Northwest Atlantic Fishes and Two Common Species of Squid, Ray E. Bowman, Charles E. Stillwell, William L. Michaels, and Marvin D. Grosslein, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-155 (2000)
♦ 4VII. FOOD HABITS OF THE MUMMICHOG (Fundulus heteroclitus), Frank W. Steimle, Jr., NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-167, 2001 p. 101-109