Contribution to the knowledge on the diet, feeding activity, and reproduction of Lolliguncula brevis (BLAINVILLE, 1823) in the coastal region off Santos (São Paulo State)
Keywords:
Loliginidae, feeding, stomach content, sex-ratio, Brazil, Southwestern AtlanticAbstract
This study aimed to investigate the diet and feeding activity of the squid Lolliguncula brevis in the coastal region of Santos. Sex ratio and maturity stages of the specimens were also evaluated. The sampling was carried out in September 2005 and March 2006 in Santos Bay and the continental shelf off Santos. A total of 181 specimens with 17 to 50 mm of mantle length were caught between the depths of 8.9 and 26.5 m. The sex ratio was 1.7 females:1 male; males attain gonadal maturity at smaller size than females. In both periods, most males were mature, the smallest of them measuring 23 mm of mantle length. The smallest mature female measured 32 mm, while all females larger than 40 mm were mature. The results of the digestion degree, the fullness degree and the fullness index suggest that the food intake occurs throughout the day, but with higher intensity at dusk. However, samples from the dark period of the day were not collected. The items identified in the stomach contents were crustaceans, bony fish, cephalopods, bryozoans, and nematodes. Crustaceans were the most important food for all size classes. However, as the squid body enlarged, the importance of fish in the diet increased and that of crustaceans decreased. The relative contribution of crustaceans in the diet was greater during the afternoon and dusk, and that of fish during the morning.
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ZALESKI, T. 2010 Ciclo de vida e ecologia da lula Lolliguncula brevis na Armação de Itapocoroy, Santa Catarina, Brasil. 187 p. (Tese de Doutoramento. Ciências Biológicas.Universidade Federal do Paraná, PR).
Brakoniecki, 1984 (Cephalopoda: Loliginidae) in Southern Brazil. Nerítica, Pontal do Sul, 11:63-76.
BARTOL, I.K.; MANN, R.; VECCHIONE, M. 2002 Distribution of the euryhaline squid
Lolliguncula brevis in Chesapeake Bay. Effects of selected abiotic factors. Marine Ecology Progress Series, Oldendorf Luhe, 226: 235-247.
BOLSTAD, K.S. e O’SHEA, S. 2004 Gut contents of a giant squid Architeuthis dux (Cephalopoda,Oegopsida) from New Zealand waters. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Wellington, 31: 15-21.
BOYLE, P. e RODHOUSE, P.G. 2005 Cephalopods:Ecology and Fisheries. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 452p.
CLARKE, M.R. 1996 Cephalopods as Prey. III.Cetaceans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Londres, 351: 1053-1065.
CROXALL, J.P. e PRINCE, P.A. 1996 Cephalopods as prey. I. Seabirds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Londres, 351: 1023-1043.
DRAGOVICH, A. e KELLY, J.A. 1963 A biological study and some economic aspects of squid in Tampa Bay, Florida. Proceedings of Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries lnstitute, Flórida, 5: 87-102.
GASALLA, M.A.; RODRIGUES, A.R.; POSTUMA,F.A. 2010 The trophic role of the squid Loligo plei as a keystone species in the South Brazil Bight ecosystem. ICES Journal of Marine Science, Oxford, 67: 1413-1424.
HUNSICKER, M.E. e ESSINGTON, T.E. 2006 Sizestructured patterns of piscivory of the longfin inshore squid (Loligo pealeii) in the midAtlantic continental shelf ecosystem. Canadian Journal of Fishery and Aquatic Science, Ottawa,63: 754-765.
HYSLOP, E.J. 1980 Stomach contents analyses - a review of methods and their application. Journal of Fish Biology, Oxford, 17(4): 411-429.
KAWAKAMI, E. e VAZZOLER, G. 1980 Método gráfico e estimativa do índice alimentar
aplicado no estudo de alimentação de peixes.Boletim do Instituto Oceanográfico, São Paulo,29(2): 205-207.
KLAGES, N.T.W. 1996 Cephalopods as prey. II.Seals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Londres, 351: 1045-1052.
LAUGHLIN, R.A. e LIVINGSTON, R.J. 1982 Environmental and trophic determinants of
the spatial/temporal distribution of the brief squid (Lolliguncula brevis) in the Apalachicola estuary (North Florida, USA). Bulletin of Marine Science, Miami, 32(2): 489í 497.
MANGUM, C.P. 1991 Salt sensitivity of the hemocyanin of eury- and stenohaline squids.Comparative Biochemistry Physiology,Amsterdam, 99(1/2): 159-161.
MARTINS, R.S. 2002 Loliginídeos na ilha de Santa Catarina: Características e relações ecológicas, com ênfase em Loligo plei (Cephalopoda: Teuthida:Myopsina). 199p. (Dissertação de mestrado.Ciências Biológicas. Universidade Federal do Paraná, PR).
MARTINS, R.S. e PEREZ, J.A.A. 2006 Cephalopods and fish attracted by night
lights in coastal shallow-waters, off southern Brazil, with the description of squid and fish behavior. Revista de Etologia, São Paulo, 8(1):27-34.
MARTINS, R.S.; PEREZ, J.A.A.; SCHETTINI,C.A.F. 2006 The squid Loligo plei around Santa Catarina Island, Southern Brazil: Ecology and interactions with the coastal oceanographic environment. Journal of Coastal Research,Flórida, 39: 1285-1290.
MARTINS, R.S. e PEREZ, J.A.A. 2007 The ecology of loliginid squid in shallow waters
around Santa Catarina Island, Southern Brazil. Bulletin of Marine Science, Miami, 80(1):125í 146.
OGBURN-MATTHEWS, M.V. e ALLEN, D.M.1993 Interactions among dominant estuarine nekton species. Estuaries, Florida, 16(4): 840í 850.
PEREZ, J.A.A.; AGUIAR, D.C.; OLIVEIRA, U.C.2002 Biology and population dynamics of the long-finned squid Loligo plei (Cephalopoda:Loliginidae) in southern Brazilian waters.Fisheries Research, Amsterdam, 58: 267í 279.
RODHOUSE, P.G. e NIGMATULLIN, C.M., 1996 Role as consumers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Londres, 351: 1003-1022.
ROPER, C.F.E.; SWEENEY, M.J.; NAUEN, C.E.1984 Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries. FAO Fisheries Synopsis, Roma,125(3): 277p.
SANTOS, R.A. e HAIMOVICI, M. 1997 Food and feeding of the short-finned squid Illex
argentinus (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae)off southern Brazil. Fisheries Research,
Amsterdam, 33(1-3): 139-147.
SANTOS, R.A. e HAIMOVICI, M. 2000 The argentine short-finned squid Illex argentinus in the food webs of southern Brazil. Sarsia,Bergen, 85(1): 49-60.
SANTOS, R.A. e HAIMOVICI, M. 2001 Cephalopods in the diet of marine mammals
stranded or incidentally caught along southeastern and southern Brazil (21-34ºS).Fisheries Research, Amsterdam, 52: 99-112.
SANTOS, R.A. e HAIMOVICI, M. 2002 Cephalopods in the trophic relations off
southern Brazil. Bulletim of Marine Science,Miami, 71(2): 753-770.
SIMONE, L.R.L. 1997 Redescription of Lolliguncula brevis (Blainville) (Myopsida, Loliginidae) from Southeastern Brazil). Iheringia, Série Zoologia, Porto Alegre, 82: 141-150.
SMALE, M.J. 1996 Cephalopods as prey. IV.Fishes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Londres, 351: 1067-1081.
SQUIRES, H.J. e BARRAGÁN, J.H. 1979 Lolliguncula panamensis (Cephalopoda:
Loliginidae) from the pacific coast of Colombia. The Veliger, Califórnia, 22: 67í 74.
VECCHIONE, M. 1991 Dissolved oxygen and the distribution of the euryhaline squid
Lolliguncula brevis. Bulletim of Marine Science,Miami, 49: 668-669.
VECCHIONE, M. 2002 Cephalopods. In:KARPENTER, A.E. (ed) The living marine
resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Volume 1: Introduction, mollusks, crustaceans, hagfishes,sharks, batoid fishes, and chimaeras. Roma, FAO.p.149-244.
ZALESKI, T. 2005 Posição sistemática e diní¢mica populacional da lula Lolliguncula brevis (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). 140 p. (Dissertação de Mestrado. Ciências Biológicas. Universidade Federal do Paraná, PR).
ZALESKI, T. 2010 Ciclo de vida e ecologia da lula Lolliguncula brevis na Armação de Itapocoroy, Santa Catarina, Brasil. 187 p. (Tese de Doutoramento. Ciências Biológicas.Universidade Federal do Paraná, PR).
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