Diet Overlap

Sciaenops ocellatus (Spotted bass)
Syngnathus floridae (Florida pipefish)

Common Diet

Palaemon pugio (daggerblade grass shrimp)
Palaemon vulgaris (marsh grass shrimp)

Common Habitat

Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic, Northwest
Atlantic, Western Central
Bahamas
Caribbean Sea
Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Gulf of Mexico
Mexico
Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf
United States

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Food 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
♦ 2Trophic ecology of two congeneric pipefishes (Syngnathidae) of the lower York River, Virginia, Rogério L. Teixeira & John A. Musick, Environmental Biology of Fishes 43: 295-309, 1995.