Diet Overlap

Leucoraja erinacea (common skate)
Malacoraja senta (Smooth skate)

Common Diet

Crangon septemspinosa (sevenspine bay shrimp)
Dichelopandalus leptocerus (bristled longbeak)
Eualus pusiolus (doll eualid)
Neomysis americana (Mysid shrimp)
Pagurus pubescens

Common Habitat

Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic, Northwest
Atlantic, Western Central
Canada
Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf
Saguenay - St. Lawrence Marine Park
Scotian Shelf
United States

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1 Steimle FW, Pikanowski RA, McMillan DG, Zetlin CA, Wilk SJ. 2000. Demersal Fish and American Lobster Diets in the Lower Hudson - Raritan Estuary. US Dep Commer, NOAA Tech Memo NMFS NE 161; 106 p.
♦ 2Food 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)
♦ 3Little Skate, Leucoraja erinacea, Life History and Habitat Characteristics, David B. Packer, Christine A. Zetlin, and Joseph J. Vitaliano, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-175 (2003)
♦ 4Smooth Skate, Malacoraja senta, Life History and Habitat Characteristics, David B. Packer, Christine A. Zetlin, and Joseph J. Vitaliano, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-177 (2003)