Ecology Summary - Ectyoplasia ferox

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Ecology of Ectyoplasia ferox

Main Ref.	Engel, S. and J.R. Pawlik, 2005
Remarks	Occurs on coral reefs, hard bottoms, lagoons (Ref. 85482), and mangroves (Ref. 86836). It hosts alpheid shrimps in its canals (Ref. 83410). Inhabits coralline algae reefs, coral communities, algal nodules, shallow coral and lower mesophotic reefs (Ref. 128739).

Aquatic zones / Water bodies

	Marine - Neritic	Marine - Oceanic	Brackishwater	Freshwater
Marine zones / Brackish and freshwater bodies	supra-littoral zone littoral zone sublittoral zone	epipelagic mesopelagic epipelagic abyssopelagic hadopelagic	estuaries/lagoons/brackish seas mangroves marshes/swamps	rivers/streams lakes/ponds caves exclusively in caves

Highighted items on the list are where Ectyoplasia ferox may be found.

Habitat

Substrate	Benthic: sessile; Hard Bottom;
Substrate Ref.	Messing, Charles., 2010
Special habitats	Coral Reefs: lagoons;
Special habitats Ref.	Gischler, E. and R.N. Ginsburg, 1996

Associations

Ref.	Macdonald, K.S. III, R. Ríos and J.E. Duffy, 2006
Associations	commensalism;
Associated with	Synalpheus chacei; Synalpheus herricki; Synalpheus pandionis (Ref. 83410).
Association remarks
Parasitism

feeding

Feeding type	mainly plants/detritus (troph. 2-2.19)
Feeding type Ref.	Ruppert, E.E., R.S. Fox and R.D. Barnes, 2004
Feeding habit	filtering plankton
Feeding habit Ref.	Ruppert, E.E., R.S. Fox and R.D. Barnes, 2004

Trophic Level(s)

Estimation method	original sample		unfished population		Remark
Estimation method	Troph	s.e.	Troph	s.e.	Remark
From diet composition
From individual food items
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