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. 2023 Jan 30;11:e14688. doi: 10.7717/peerj.14688

Table 1. Diet compositions (%IRI) of P. tetradactylum collected from four study sites along the coasts of Thailand (n = 541).

Food type Diet compositions (%)
% N %FO %V %IRI
Shrimp and Acetes 59.10
Acetes spp./shrimp post larvae 13.51 13.55 7.85 8.89
Penaeid shrimp 21.59 22.91 31.86 50.20
Fishes 33.28
Ambassis sp. 2.52 2.31 2.63 0.49
Atherinomorus lacunosus 0.37 0.58 0.73 0.03
Dussumieria elopsoides 0.28 0.29 0.22 0.01
Eleutheronema tetradactylum 0.37 0.58 0.59 0.02
Encrasicholina devisi 2.62 2.59 2.92 0.59
Hilsa kelee 0.19 0.14 0.10 0.00
Leiognathus equulus 9.72 3.89 4.14 2.21
Planiliza subviridis 0.37 0.29 0.37 0.01
Stolephorus commersonnii 2.15 2.74 2.95 0.57
Thryssa setirostris 0.37 0.29 0.28 0.01
Trichiurus lepturus 0.75 0.58 0.74 0.04
Fish bone 14.86 14.55 11.73 15.87
Fish flesh 10.93 13.40 13.55 13.45
Mantis shrimp 0.01
Odontodactylus scyllarus 0.09 0.14 0.19 0.01
Mollusca 2.78
Corbula fortisulcata 0.84 1.30 0.72 0.08
Uroteuthis spp. 4.49 5.76 6.95 2.70
Polychaete 0.18
Perinereis nuntia 1.40 1.44 1.71 0.18
UDF 5.70 7.20 7.30 3.84
Zooplankton 2.43 2.45 1.83 0.43
Plastic debris 2.43 3.03 0.64 0.38

Notes.

a

Bold value indicates the sum of each diet group.