Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology (수산해양기술연구)

The Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology (한국수산해양기술학회)
권호 표지
DOI QR코드

DOI QR Code

Abundances and feeding habits of Hippocampus coronatus in an eelgrass (Zostera marina) bed of Dongdae Bay, Korea

남해안 동대만 잘피밭에서 서식하는 해마(Hippocampus coronatus)의 출현량 및 먹이습성

  • Huh, Sung-Hoi (Department of Oceangraphy, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Park, Joo Myun (Korea Inter-University Institute of Ocean Science, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Kwak, Seok Nam (Environ-Ecological Engineering Institute Co., Ltd.) ;
  • Seong, Bong Jun (Environ-Ecological Engineering Institute Co., Ltd.)
  • Received : 2013.09.09
  • Accepted : 2014.04.28
  • Published : 2014.05.31
Download PDF
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

Abstract

A total of 164 individuals of Hippocampus coronatus were collected from an eelgrass bed in Dongdae Bay, Korea from September 2006 to August 2007. The number of individuals of H. coronatus was higher in September 2006. The size of H. coronatus ranged from 2.4 to 9.3cm in height (Ht), and most of individuals were small size below 5cm (Ht). H. coronatus was a carnivore which consumed mainly gammarid amphipods and copepods. Its diets also included a small amount ofmysids, ostracods, brachiopods, caprellid amphipods, bathynellaceas, isopods, tanaids, and ascothoracids. The diets of H. coronatus underwent size-related changes; smaller individuals consumed copepods, while larger individuals ate gammarid amphipods and mysids. The dietary breadth index of H. coronatus was increased with increasing of their size.

Keywords

References

  1. Burchmore JJ, Pollard DA, and Bell JD. 1984. Community structure and trophic relationships of the fish fauna of an estuarine Posidonia australis seagrass habitat in Port Hacking, New South Wales. Aquat Bot 18, 71-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3770(84)90081-0
  2. Choi YU. 2006. Reproductive biology of seahorse (Hippocampus spp.). Ph.D. Thesis, Cheju National University, Korea, 116.
  3. Choi YU, Rho S, JungMM, Lee YD and Noh GA. 2006. Parturition and early growth of crowned seahorse, Hippocampus coronatus in Korea. J Aquaculture 19, 109-118.
  4. Curtis JMR and Vincent ACJ. 2006. Life history of an unusual marine fish: survival, growth and movement patterns of Hippocampus guttulatus Cuvier 1829. J Fish Biol 68, 707-733.(DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2006.00952.x)
  5. Felício AKC. 2006. Feeding behavior of the longsnout seahorse Hippocampus reidi Ginsburg, 1933. Japan Ethol 24, 219-225.(DOI:10.1007/s10164-005-0189-8)
  6. Foster SJ and Vincent ACJ. 2004. Life history and ecology seahorses : Implication for conservation and management. J Fish Biol 65, 1-61.(DOI:10.1111/j.0022-1112.2004.00429.x)
  7. Foster SJ, Marsden AD and Vincent ACJ. 2003. Hippocampus erectus. In: IUCN. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (www.redlist.org).
  8. Gibson RN and Ezzi IA. 1987. The biology of a Scottish population of Fries goby, Lesueurigobius friesii. J Fish Biol 12, 371-389.(DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8649.1978.tb04181.x)
  9. GomonMF, Glover JCM, and Kuiter RH. 1984. The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide, State Print 192.
  10. Hoang DH, Sy TS and Hoa HT. 1998. Feeding behaviour and food of seahorses in Vietnam. Mar Biol South China Sea, 458-464.
  11. Huh SH and Kwak SN. 1997. Feeding habits of Syngnathus schlegeli in the eelgrass (Zostera marina) Bed in Kwangyang Bay. J Korean Fish Soc 30, 896-902.
  12. Huh SH and Kwak SN. 1998a. Feeding habits of Acentrogobius pflaumii in the eelgrass (Zostera marina) bed in Kwangyang Bay. Korean J Ichthyol 10, 24-31.
  13. Huh SH and Kwak SN. 1998b. Feeding habits of Sebastes inermis in the eelgrass (Zostera marina) Bed in Kwangyang Bay. J Korean Fish Soc 31, 168-175.
  14. Huh SH, Kwak SN and Kim HW. 2008. Feeing habits of Pseudoblennius percoides (Pisces; Cottoidae) in an eelgrass (Zostera marina) bed of Dongdae Bay. Korean J Ichthyol 20, 45-53.
  15. Jung MM, Choi YU, Lee JE, Kim JW, Kim SC, Lee YH and Rho S. 2007. Coexisting Fish fauna in the seahorse habitats. J Aquaculture 20, 41-46.
  16. Kang SH, Koh JR, Jeong SB and Kim SA. 2005. Morphological Development and reproductive behavior of Hedgehog Seahorse Hippocampus spinisissimus (Teleostei: Syngnathidae). J Korean Fish Soc 38, 298-303.
  17. Kendrick AJ and Hydnes GA. 2003. Patterns in the abundance and size-distribution of syngnathid fishes among habitats in a seagrass-dominated marine environment. Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 57, 631-640.(DOI:10.1016/S0272-7714(02)00402-x)
  18. Kim IS, Choi Y, Lee CR, Lee YJ, Kim BJ and Kim JH. 2005. Illustrated Book of Korean Fishes. Kohak, lnc., 616.
  19. Krebs CJ. 1989. Ecological methodology. Harper and Row, New York, 654.
  20. Kuiter R. 2000. Seahorses, pipefishs and their relatives. Chorleywood, TMC Publ., 240.
  21. Kwak SN. 1997. Biotic communities and feeding ecology of fish in Zostera marine beds off Dae Island in Kwangyang Bay. Ph.D Thesis, Pukyong Nat'l Univ, 411.
  22. Kwak SN and Huh SH. 2003. Feeding Habits of Juvenile Liparis tanakai in the Eelgrass, Zostera marina Bed in Kwangyang Bay J Korean Fish Soc 36, 372-377. https://doi.org/10.5657/kfas.2003.36.4.372
  23. Kwak SN, Huh SH and Seung BJ. 2008. Feeding habits of Hippocampus mohnikei in an eelgrass (Zostera marina) bed. Korean J Ichthyol 20, 112-116
  24. Lourie SA, Pritchard JC, Casey SP, Ky TS, Hall HJ and Vincent ACJ. 1999. The taxonomy of Vietnam's exploited seahorses (family Syngnathidae). Biol J Linnean Soc 66, 231-256.(DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1999.tb01886.x)
  25. Pinkas L, Oliphant MS and Iverson ILK. 1971. Food habits of al-bacore, bluefin tuna and bonito in California waters. Fish Bull 152, 1-105.
  26. Teixeira RL and Musik JA. 2001. Reproduction and food habits of the lined seahorse, Hippocampus erectus (Teleostei:Syngnathidae) of Chesapeake Bay, Virgin. Rev Brasil Biol, 61, 79-90. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-71082001000100011
  27. Vincent ACJ, Marson AD, Evans KL and Sadler LM. 2004. Temporal and spatial opportunities for polygamy in a monogamy seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. Behaviour 141, 141-156.(DOI:10.1163/156853904322890780)
  28. Vincent ACJ. 1996. The International Trade in Seahorses. Traffic International, Cambridge, 4-163.
  29. Woods CMC. 2002. Natural diet of the seahorse Hippocampus abdominalis. New Zealand J Mar Fresh Res 36, 655-660.(DOI:10.1080/00288330.2002.9517121)

Cited by

  1. Seahorses of the Hippocampus coronatus complex: taxonomic revision, and description of Hippocampus haema, a new species from Korea and Japan (Teleostei, Syngnathidae) vol.712, pp.1313-2989, 2017, https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.712.14955