Diet Overlap

Rhomboplites aurorubens (Vermillion snapper)
Cynoscion arenarius (Sand seatrout)

Common Diet

Doryteuthis pealeii (longfin inshore squid)

Common Habitat

Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic, Western Central
Gulf of Mexico
Mexico
Nicaragua
Reserva de la Biosfera de Sian Ka'an
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)
♦ 2TROPHIC RELATIONSHIPS OF DEMERSAL FISHES IN THE SHRIMPING ZONE OFF ALVARADO LAGOON, VERACRUZ, MEXICO, Edgar Peláez-Rodríguez, Jonathan Franco-López, Wilfredo A. Matamoros, Rafael Chavez-López, and Nancy J. Brown-Peterson, Gulf and Caribbean Research Vol 17, 157–167, 2005