Ecology Summary - Sillago maculata

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Main Ref.	Burchmore, J.J., D.A. Pollard, M.J. Middleton, J.D. Bell and B.C. Pease, 1988
Remarks	Occur on silty and muddy substrates in the deeper water of bays, but also frequenting the mouths of rivers, estuaries, and mangrove creeks. Juveniles abound in estuaries and shallow water during summer, moving deeper as they mature. Found inshore (Ref. 75154). They forage for burrowing or benthic animals by using their conical snout to plough through sand or mud (Ref. 6390). They change their dietary pattern as they grow larger (Ref. 6223).

Main Ref.

Burchmore, J.J., D.A. Pollard, M.J. Middleton, J.D. Bell and B.C. Pease, 1988

Remarks

Occur on silty and muddy substrates in the deeper water of bays, but also frequenting the mouths of rivers, estuaries, and mangrove creeks. Juveniles abound in estuaries and shallow water during summer, moving deeper as they mature. Found inshore (Ref. 75154). They forage for burrowing or benthic animals by using their conical snout to plough through sand or mud (Ref. 6390). They change their dietary pattern as they grow larger (Ref. 6223).

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 Sillago maculata may be found.

Habitat

Substrate	Benthic; Soft Bottom: sand; silt; mud;
Substrate Ref.
Special habitats	Coral Reefs;
Special habitats Ref.	Nguyen, N.T. and V.Q. Nguyen, 2006

Associations

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Parasitism

Feeding

Feeding type	mainly animals (troph. 2.8 and up)
Feeding type Ref.	Burchmore, J.J., D.A. Pollard, M.J. Middleton, J.D. Bell and B.C. Pease, 1988
Feeding habit	hunting macrofauna (predator)
Feeding habit Ref.	Burchmore, J.J., D.A. Pollard, M.J. Middleton, J.D. Bell and B.C. Pease, 1988

Trophic Level(s)

Estimation method	Original sample		Unfished population		Remark
Estimation method	Troph	s.e.	Troph	s.e.	Remark
From diet composition	3.31	0.13	3.24	0.35	Troph of juv./adults from 2 studies.
From individual food items	3.52	0.54			Trophic level estimated from a number of food items using a randomized resampling routine.
Ref.	Burchmore, J.J., D.A. Pollard, M.J. Middleton, J.D. Bell and B.C. Pease, 1988

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