Versatile mysids exploit multiple basal resources: implication of the bentho-pelagic habit in estuarine food webs

Food and feeding habits of the seahorses Hippocampus spinosissimus and Hippocampus trimaculatus (Malaysia)

“…Seahorses therefore appear to be specialists in their prey selection, focusing on slow-moving epibenthic, hyperbenthic or canopy-dwelling crustaceans. These crustaceans inhabit mud-sand bottoms and habitats in, or associated with mudflat, seagrass or mangroves areas (Zimmerman et al , 1979; Gore et al , 1981; Matheson et al , 1999; Hanamura et al , 2008; Ramarn et al , 2014). This suggests that juveniles of deeper water adults may be vulnerable to impacts from development, meaning that deep-water refugia may not be enough to protect these seahorses from the impacts of sea-filling (land reclamation) and development, which increasingly threaten these habitats in most tropical regions.…”

Feeding ecology of three sympatric species of stingrays on a tropical mudflat

“…Coastal mudflats can be very productive habitats as a result of high nutrient inputs from fluvial discharge (Trott & Alongi, 1999; Teoh et al ., 2016) and outwelling from adjacent mangrove forests (Tanaka & Choo, 2000; Alongi, 2009). Such mudflats are known feeding grounds of fishes (Chong et al ., 2012; Lee et al ., 2016), penaeid shrimps (Leh & Sasekumar, 1984; Marsitah & Chong, 2002), mysid shrimps (Ramarn et al ., 2015), hermit crabs (Teoh & Chong, 2015), molluscs (Broom, 1982; Rodelli et al ., 1984) and shorebirds (Burger et al ., 1997; Backwell et al ., 1998). Unfortunately, coastal mudflats particularly in the eastern Asian region are increasingly subject to land reclamations for development (Kao et al ., 1998), while coastal development often alters coastline morphology and hydrodynamics resulting in mud and sediment erosion (Łabuz, 2015).…”

Flexible herbivory of the euryhaline mysid <i>Neomysis awatschensis</i> in the microtidal Yura River estuary, central Japan

“…Two scenarios were made for trophic enrichment factor (TEF; difference in stable isotope ratios between an animal and its diet), because taxonspecific TEF for δ 13 C is unavailable within the genus Neomysis. The first scenario adopted +0.5‰ as TEF for δ 13 C from other mysid species Acanthomysis thailandica Murano, 1986 and Mesopodopsis orientalis (Tattersall, 1908) (Ramarn et al 2015). The second scenario adopted −0.7‰ as TEF for δ 13 C from other small crustaceans including the ghost shrimps Nihonotrypaea japonica (Ortmann, 1891) and N. harmandi (Bouvier, 1901) (McCutchan et al 2003, Yokoyama et al 2005.…”