Known prey organisms
Callinectes sapidus (Blue crabs) preys on:
benthic invertebrates
Modiolus demissus
Littorina littorea
Urosalpinx cinerea
Neopanope texana sayi
Nematoda
Crustacea
Polychaeta
Bivalvia
Actinopterygii
Cumacea
Decapoda
Floridichthys carpio
Lophogobius cyprinoides
phytoplankton
microzooplankton
zooplankton
Ctenophora
Chrysaora quinquecirrha
Other suspension feeders
Mya arenaria
Crassostrea virginica
Nereis
Macoma
meiofauna
Callinectes sapidus
Brachiodontes exustus
Crepidula fornicata
Crepidula convexa
Argopecten irradians
Chione cancellata
Pagurus
Pagurus maclaughlinae
Libinia dubia
Pinixia floridana
Neopanope texana
Alpheus normani
Hippolyte zostericola
Processa bermudiensis
Penaeus duoarum
Palaemonetes floridanus
Based on studies in:
USA: Florida (Estuarine)
USA: New Jersey (Brackish water)
USA: Florida, Everglades (Estuarine)
USA: Maryland, Chesapeake Bay (Estuarine)
This list may not be complete but is based on published studies.
benthic invertebrates
Modiolus demissus
Littorina littorea
Urosalpinx cinerea
Neopanope texana sayi
Nematoda
Crustacea
Polychaeta
Bivalvia
Actinopterygii
Cumacea
Decapoda
Floridichthys carpio
Lophogobius cyprinoides
phytoplankton
microzooplankton
zooplankton
Ctenophora
Chrysaora quinquecirrha
Other suspension feeders
Mya arenaria
Crassostrea virginica
Nereis
Macoma
meiofauna
Callinectes sapidus
Brachiodontes exustus
Crepidula fornicata
Crepidula convexa
Argopecten irradians
Chione cancellata
Pagurus
Pagurus maclaughlinae
Libinia dubia
Pinixia floridana
Neopanope texana
Alpheus normani
Hippolyte zostericola
Processa bermudiensis
Penaeus duoarum
Palaemonetes floridanus
Based on studies in:
USA: Florida (Estuarine)
USA: New Jersey (Brackish water)
USA: Florida, Everglades (Estuarine)
USA: Maryland, Chesapeake Bay (Estuarine)
This list may not be complete but is based on published studies.
- W. M. Kemp, W. H. B. Smith, H. N. McKellar, M. E. Lehman, M. Homer, D. L. Young and H. T. Odum, Energy cost-benefit analysis applied to power plants near Crystal River, Florida. In: Ecosystem Modeling in Theory and Practice: An Introduction with Case His
- C. H. Peterson, The importance of predation and competition in organizing the intertidal epifaunal communities of Barnegat Inlet, New Jersey, Oecologia (Berlin) 39:1-24, from p. 8 (1979).
- 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).
- Christian RR, Luczkovich JJ (1999) Organizing and understanding a winters seagrass foodweb network through effective trophic levels. Ecol Model 117:99124
- Baird D, Ulanowicz RE (1989) The seasonal dynamics of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. Ecol Monogr 59:329364
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