Ecology Summary - Diagramma pictum

Language:

Main Ref.	McKay, R.J., 1984
Remarks	Found inshore (Ref. 75154). Juveniles usually occur in seaweed beds, and large adults occur in small schools or solitary around coral (Refs. 2799). Inverts and fish feeder (Ref. 41878). Dwells in shallow water coral reefs. Juveniles form small groups near seaweeds, feeding on associated organisms. Adults exist in isolation and forage over reefs. Feeds on benthic invertebrates, shrimp, polychaetes, crabs and small fishes (Ref 9773).

Main Ref.

McKay, R.J., 1984

Remarks

Found inshore (Ref. 75154). Juveniles usually occur in seaweed beds, and large adults occur in small schools or solitary around coral (Refs. 2799). Inverts and fish feeder (Ref. 41878). Dwells in shallow water coral reefs. Juveniles form small groups near seaweeds, feeding on associated organisms. Adults exist in isolation and forage over reefs. Feeds on benthic invertebrates, shrimp, polychaetes, crabs and small fishes (Ref 9773).

Aquatic zones / Water bodies

	Marine - Neritic	Marine - Oceanic	Brackishwater	Freshwater
Marine zones / Brackish and freshwater bodies	supra-littoral zone littoral zone sublittoral zone	epipelagic mesopelagic epipelagic abyssopelagic hadopelagic	estuaries/lagoons/brackish seas mangroves marshes/swamps	rivers/streams lakes/ponds caves exclusively in caves

Highighted items on the list are where Diagramma pictum may be found.

Habitat

Substrate	Benthic; Soft Bottom: silt; Hard Bottom: rocky;
Substrate Ref.	Broad, G., 2003
Special habitats	Beds: sea grass; Coral Reefs;
Special habitats Ref.	Nguyen, N.T. and V.Q. Nguyen, 2006

Associations

Ref.	Al-Abdessalaam, T.Z.S., 1995
Associations	solitary;
Associated with
Association remarks
Parasitism

Feeding

Feeding type	mainly animals (troph. 2.8 and up)
Feeding type Ref.	Jones, G.P., D.J. Ferrell and P.F. Sale, 1992
Feeding habit	hunting macrofauna (predator)
Feeding habit Ref.	Jones, G.P., D.J. Ferrell and P.F. Sale, 1992

Trophic Level(s)

Estimation method	Original sample		Unfished population		Remark
Estimation method	Troph	s.e.	Troph	s.e.	Remark
From diet composition	3.70	0.16	3.41	0.43	Troph of juv./adults from 2 studies.
From individual food items	3.71	0.38			Trophic level estimated from a number of food items using a randomized resampling routine.
Ref.	Kulbicki, M., Y.-M. Bozec, P. Labrosse, Y. Letourneur, G. Mou-Tham and L. Wantiez, 2005

Back to Search

cfm script by eagbayani, , php script by rolavides, 2/5/2008 , last modified by mbactong, 10/24/19