Food and Feeding Dynamics of Stolephorus commersonnii (Lacepede, 1803) (Family: Engraulidae) from South Andaman

Table 2

Numerical (%) and frequency percentage (%) of various food items of S. commersonnii.

Month		Copepods		Decapods		Mollusca larvae		Amphipod		Semidigested matter		Other prey items
		%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Oct. 11	118	33.3	89.4	16.1	38.9	17.2	23.6	2.1	33.1	9.2	98.1	24.1	69.1
Nov. 11	155	47.6	98.8	36.1	67.7	2.5	20.5	1.1	16.4	1.6	90.6	12.3	75.3
Dec. 11	132	24.2	96.2	41.1	48.3	0.0	5.6	0.0	9.4	0.0	20.4	25.3	56.3
Jan. 12	129	35.2	100.0	33.0	45.6	9.1	18.1	2.8	10.2	3.4	99.8	19.3	68.2
Feb. 12	139	37.4	100.0	29.7	41.4	8.8	12.8	2.0	13.6	5.5	92.3	18.7	45.3
Mar. 12	169	34.1	99.8	35.2	56.0	9.1	17.1	4.4	9.4	2.3	86.7	19.3	49.0
Apr. 12	122	30.5	95.5	31.7	60.6	9.8	15.4	4.6	11.8	2.4	94.3	25.6	73.1
May 12	105	33.3	100.0	35.2	55.9	4.6	9.9	2.5	14.6	0.0	96.8	17.6	66.6
Jun. 12	149	28.1	96.9	31.5	42.0	6.7	11.4	0.0	12.4	3.4	90.5	19.1	50.0
Jul. 12	134	29.3	98.7	26.8	28.5	11.4	16.2	1.5	6.7	3.2	95.2	18.7	41.9
Aug. 12	107	28.8	100.0	29.7	31.7	11.0	13.9	0.9	9.6	0.8	85.8	21.2	45.8
Sep. 12	100	25.6	98.4	32.5	35.6	12.8	19.1	2.6	13.3	1.7	91.6	21.4	54.5
Total/avg.	1559	32.3	97.8	31.5	46.0	8.6	15.3	2.0	13.4	2.8	86.8	20.2	57.9