Diet Overlap

Rhomboplites aurorubens (Vermillion snapper)
Calamus leucosteus (Whitebone porgy)

Common Diet

Ampelisca vadorum
Bowmaniella portoricensis
Ervilia nitens (shining ervilia)
Leptochela papulata (light glass shrimp)
Oxyurostylis smithi

Common Habitat

Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic, Northwest
Atlantic, Western Central
Cuba
Gulf of Mexico
Mexico
Nicaragua
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)
♦ 2Feeding Habits of Whitebone Porgy, Calamus leucosteus (Teleostei: Sparidae), Associated with Hard Bottom Reefs off the Southeastern United States, George R. Sedberry, April 1989. Fishery Bulletin. U.S. 87: 935--944.