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Medusa consumption and prey selection of silver pomfret Pampus argenteus juveniles

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The current study explored Aurelia aurita and Rhopilema esculent um consumption by silver pomfret juveniles, as well as their prey selection between the two jellyfish species. Silver pomfret juveniles weighing 1±0.1 g actively preyed on both the species. Their daily A. aurita consumption was 11.6 times their own body weights regardless of the size of A. aurita medusae. Their daily R. esculent um consumption was 13, 9.1, 5, and 4.1 times their own body weights when the R. esculentum medusae were 10, 20, 30, and 40 mm in bell diameter, respectively. The survival rates of the R. esculent um were higher than those of the A. aurita. When the R. esculent um medusae were more than 30 mm in bell diameter, their survival rate exceeded 92%. Silver pomfrets serve as a type of potential predators on A. aurita in coastal waters, and they have little influence on R. esculent um with a size exceeding 30 mm. Besides, A. aurita may be able to be used as fish prey in silver pomfret artificial breeding.

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    Chunsheng Liu  (刘春胜), Zhimeng Zhuang  (庄志猛), Siqing Chen  (陈四清), Jingping Yan  (燕敬平) & Changlin Liu  (刘长琳)

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Supported by National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2011CB403605), the Key Science and Technology Program of Qingdao (No. 11-3-1-6-hy), the Special Funds for the Basic R&D Program in the Central Non-Profit Research Institutes (No. 20603022011008), the National Key Technology R&D Program during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan Period (No. 2011BAD13B01)

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Liu, C., Zhuang, Z., Chen, S. et al. Medusa consumption and prey selection of silver pomfret Pampus argenteus juveniles. Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 32, 71–80 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-014-3034-5

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