Known prey organisms

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Known prey organisms

Decapoda (other decapods) preys on:
basic food
detritus
benthic macrofauna
Amphipoda
Gadiformes
Dinoflagellata
Copepoda
Bivalvia
Nitella
Cryptocoryne
Blyxa
fungi
bacteria
algae
limpets
Thais triangularis
Thais melones
Nematoda
Crustacea
Polychaeta
Actinopterygii
Cumacea
Gambusia
Heterandria formosa
organic stuff
Decapoda
Stomatopoda
Anomura
Isopoda
Pycnogonidae
Tanaidae
Echinoidea
Gastropoda
Priapula
Ophiuroidea
Hemichordata
Holothuroidea
Echiuroidea
Sipunculidae
Ectoprocta
Cirripedia
Ascidia
Porifera
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Engraulidae
Cephalopoda
Octopus
Asteroidea
Scaphopoda
Neoloricata
phytoplankton
Calanus
Pteropods
Crangon
Mysidae
Pandalidae
Gammaridae
Hyperiidae
Caprellidae
Ostreoida

Based on studies in:
India, Cochin (Brackish water)
USA: Rhode Island (Coastal)
USA: Alaska, Aleutian Islands (Coastal)
Malaysia (Swamp)
Pacific: Bay of Panama (Littoral, Rocky shore)
Chile, central Chile (Littoral, Rocky shore)
USA: Florida, Everglades (Estuarine)
USA, Northeastern US contintental shelf (Coastal)
Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands shelf (Reef)
unknown (epipelagic zone, Tropical)

This list may not be complete but is based on published studies.

S. Z. Qazim, Some problems related to the food chain in a tropical estuary. In: Marine Food Chains, J. H. Steele, Ed. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1970), pp. 45-51, from p. 50.
J. N. Kremer and S. W. Nixon, A Coastal Marine Ecosystem: Simulation and Analysis, Vol. 24 of Ecol. Studies (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1978), from p. 12.
S. W. Nixon and C. A. Oviatt, Ecology of a New England salt marsh, Ecol. Monogr. 43:463-498, from p. 491 (1973).
C. A. Simenstad, J. A. Estes, K. W. Kenyon, Aleuts, sea otters, and alternate stable-state communities, Science 200:403-411, from p. 404 (1978).
T. Mizuno and J. I. Furtado, Food chain. In: Tasek Bera, J. I. Furtado and S. Mori, Eds. (Junk, The Hague, Netherlands, 1982), pp. 357-359, from p. 358.
B. A. Menge, J. Lubchenco, S. D. Gaines and L. R. Ashkenas, A test of the Menge-Sutherland model of community organization in a tropical rocky intertidal food web, Oecologia (Berlin) 71:75-89, from p. 85 (1986).
J. C. Castilla, Perspectivas de investigacion en estructura y dinamica de communidades intermareales rocosas de Chile Central. II. Depredadores de alto nivel trofico, Medio Ambiente 5(1-2):190-215, from p. 203 (1981).
S. W. Nixon and C. A. Oviatt, Ecology of a New England salt marsh, Ecol. Monog. 43:463-498, from p. 491 (1973).
W. E. Odum and E. J. Heald, The detritus-based food web of an estuarine mangrove community, In Estuarine Research, Vol. 1, Chemistry, Biology and the Estuarine System, Academic Press, New York, pp. 265-286, from p. 281 (1975).
N. V. Parin, Ichthyofauna of the Epipelagic Zone (Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 1970; U.S. Department of Commerce Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, VA 22151), from p. 154.
Link J (2002) Does food web theory work for marine ecosystems? Mar Ecol Prog Ser 230:19
Opitz S (1996) Trophic interactions in Caribbean coral reefs. ICLARM Tech Rep 43, Manila, Philippines