Diet Overlap

Mycteroperca microlepis (Velvet rockfish)
Sciaenops ocellatus (Spotted bass)

Common Diet

Alpheus heterochaelis (bigclaw snapping shrimp)
Palaemon pugio (daggerblade grass shrimp)
Palaemon vulgaris (marsh grass shrimp)

Common Habitat

Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic, Northwest
Atlantic, Western Central
Canaveral National Seashore
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Gulf of Mexico
Mexico
Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf
Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf
United States

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Ontogenetic Shifts in the Diet of Gag, Mycteroperca microlepis, (Goode and Bean), (Pisces: Serranidae), Michael D. Mullaney, Jr., Proceedings of the 43rd Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute, pp. 432-445 (1994)
♦ 2Food of the Red Drum, Sciaenops ocellata, from Mississippi Sound, Robin M. Overstreet, Richard W. Heard, Gulf Research Reports, Vol. 6, No. 2, 131-135, 1978