Food and Feeding Habits Summary

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Food and Feeding Habits Summary Phoca vitulina

Main Ref.	Tollit, D.J., A. D Black, P. M. Thompson, A Mackay, H. M. Corpe, B. Wilson, S. M. Van Parijs, K. Grellier and K. Parlane, 1998
Fish stage	juv./adults	Mean length	none
Sample size	178	Percent empty
Country	UK Scotland	Locality	Dornoch
Period	January February March April May June July August September October November December Highlighted items on the list are known Feeding Periods of Phoca vitulina

Diet percent	Food I	Food II	Food III	Prey stage	Item Name
0.01 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Taurulus bubalis
0.02 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Centrolabrus mixttus
0.05 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Lumpenus lampretaeformis
0.05 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Myoxocephalus scorpius
0.05 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Sprattus sprattus
0.10 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Clupea harengus
0.18 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Labrus berggyylta
0.22 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Zoarces viviparus
0.34 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Anarchichas lupus
0.80 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Scophthalmus maximus
1.07 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Merlangius merlangus
1.69 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Pollachius virens
1.83 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Microstomus kitt
2.24 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Limanda limanda
2.44 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Gadus morhua
5.51 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Pleuronectes platessa
8.96 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Platichthys flesus
44.53 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Ammodytidae
28.68 %	zoobenthos	mollusks	octopi	juv./adults	Eledone cirrhosa
1.25 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Loligo forbesi