Diet Overlap

Rhomboplites aurorubens (Vermillion snapper)
Leiostomus xanthurus (Spot croaker)

Common Diet

Oxyurostylis smithi

Common Habitat

Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic, Northwest
Atlantic, Western Central
Gulf of Mexico
Mexico
Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf
United States

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Planktonic and benthic feeding by the reef-associated vermilion snapper, Rhomboplites aurorubens (Teleostei, Lutjanidae), George R. Sedberry, Nicole Cuellar, Fishery Bulletin 91:699-709 (1993)
♦ 2Food 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)