“…None of these papers, moreover, deal with crustaceans which have, however, been the subject of several qualitative observations (see Wickstein, 1983;Noel, 1985 for recent reviews). Little documentation is available on prédation of sandhoppers: their main vertebrate predators seem to be shore birds (Branch & Branch, 1981;Evans, 1988;Wildish, 1988;Koch, 1989) and small littoral fish (Smallwood, 1903;Koch, 1989, Ugolini, 1989a.…”