Diet Overlap

Mycteroperca microlepis (Velvet rockfish)
Syngnathus floridae (Florida pipefish)

Common Diet

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

Common Habitat

Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic, Northwest
Atlantic, Western Central
Belize
Bermuda
Cuba
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Gulf of Mexico
Mexico
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)
♦ 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.