Ecology Summary - Euphrosine myrtosa

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Ecology of Euphrosine myrtosa

Main Ref.	Wehe, T. and D. Fiege, 2002
Remarks	Members of the family Euphrosinidae are carnivores, feeding mainly on encrusting sponges and sessile macroinvertebrates (Ref. 107862).

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 Euphrosine myrtosa may be found.

Habitat

Substrate	Benthic;
Substrate Ref.
Special habitats
Special habitats Ref.

Associations

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Associations
Associated with
Association remarks
Parasitism

feeding

Feeding type	mainly animals (troph. 2.8 and up)
Feeding type Ref.	Joydas, T.V., P.K. Krishnakumar, M.A. Qurban, S.M. Ali, A. Al-Suwailem and K. Al-Abdulkader, 2011
Feeding habit	hunting macrofauna (predator)
Feeding habit Ref.	George, J.D., 2012

Trophic Level(s)

Estimation method	original sample		unfished population		Remark
Estimation method	Troph	s.e.	Troph	s.e.	Remark
From diet composition
From individual food items	3.00	0.00			Tentative trophic level derived from 1 + troph of a single food item
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