Diet of adult Yellow Catfish Aspistor luniscutis in northern Rio de Janeiro State
Posted: 01 Jun 2019, 21:23
Di Beneditto, A. P. M., & Tavares, M. T. M. (2019). Notes on the diet of adult Yellow Catfish Aspistor luniscutis (Pisces: Siluriformes) in northern Rio de Janeiro State, southeastern Brazil. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 11(7), 13920-13924.
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ABSTRACT
Diet of adult specimens of Yellow Catfish Aspistor luniscutis (Valenciennes, 1840) was determined through stomach contents analysis. The specimens were target of commercial gillnet fisheries in northern Rio de Janeiro State, southeastern Brazil. In this region, A. luniscutis is a generalist benthophagous feeder, consuming most available prey species with crustaceans, especially penaeid shrimps, brachyuran crabs, and sciaenid fish dominating.