Natural Prey Preferences and Spatial Variability of Predation Pressure by Cyphoma gibbosum (Mollusca: Gastropoda) on Octocoral Communities off La Parguera, Puerto Rico

Table 2

Octocoral species densities (colonies/m²) for the six most affected octocoral species within each reef along an inshore to offshore gradient.

Reef Zone	Inner-shelf reef		Mid-shelf reef		Shelf-edge reef
	Pelotas	Enrique	San Cristobal	Media Luna	Old Buoy	Weinberg
Octocoral spp.
B. asbestinum	0.07	0.09	0.05	0.19	0.04	0.15
G. ventalina	0.73	0.81	1.10	0.86	0.63	0.67
P. americana	0.94	0.98	0.65	0.42	0.18	0.13
P. acerosa	0.24	0.35	0.32	0.49	0.03	0.18
P. flexuosa	0.10	0.55	0.58	0.46	0.20	0.33
P. porosa	0.10	0.32	0.32	0.44	0.26	0.33