Diet Overlap

Rhomboplites aurorubens (Vermillion snapper)
Lophius americanus (Monkfish)

Common Diet

Doryteuthis pealeii (longfin inshore squid)

Common Habitat

Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic, Northwest
Atlantic, Western Central
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 and Ontogenetic Shifts in Feeding of the Goosefish, Lophius Americanus, Michael P. Armstrong, John A. Musick, and James A. Colvocoresses, J. Northw. Atl. Fish. Sci., Vol. 18: 99–103