Diet Overlap

Istiophorus platypterus (Atlantic sailfish)
Isurus oxyrinchus (Short-finned mako)

Common Diet

Dosidicus gigas (jumbo squid)
Illex illecebrosus (northern shortfin squid)

Common Habitat

Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Reserva de la Biosfera de Sian Ka'an

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Diet composition of sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) from the southern Gulf of California, Mexico, José Rosas-Alayolaa, Agustín Hernández-Herrera, Felipe Galvan-Magaña, L. Andres Abitia-Cárdenasa and Arturo F. Muhlia-Melo, Fisheries Research Volume 57, Issue 2, August 2002, Pages 185-195
♦ 2PREDATORY INTERACTIONS AND NICHE OVERLAP BETWEEN MAKO SHARK, ISURUS OXYRINCHUS, AND JUMBO SQUID, DOSIDICUS GIGAS, IN THE CALIFORNIA CURRENT, RUSS VETTER, SUZANNE KOHIN, ANTONELLA PRETI, SAM MCCLATCHIE AND HEIDI DEWAR, CalCOFI Rep., Vol. 49, 2008
♦ 3CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 4Food of Northwest Atlantic Fishes and Two Common Species of Squid, Ray E. Bowman, Charles E. Stillwell, William L. Michaels, and Marvin D. Grosslein, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-155 (2000)