Ecology Summary - Nephtys cirrosa

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Ecology of Nephtys cirrosa

Main Ref.	Harms, J., 1993
Remarks	Found in estuarine and inshore areas and sandbanks (Ref. 96352). Abundant along the coastal zone to the open sea. A free-living bristle worm found in a range of sediment types from muddy to coarse sand (Ref. 7882). A carnivore-scavenger that exhibits cannibalism (Ref. 96352).

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 Nephtys cirrosa may be found.

Habitat

Substrate	Benthic: mobile; macrobenthos; Soft Bottom: sand ( coarse, fine, ); mud;
Substrate Ref.	Degraer, S., J. Wittoeck, W. Appeltans, K. Cooreman, T. Deprez, H. Hillewaert, K. Hostens, J. Mees, E. Vanden Berghe and M. Vincx, 2006
Special habitats
Special habitats Ref.

Associations

Ref.	Harms, J., 1993
Associations
Associated with
Association remarks
Parasitism

feeding

Feeding type	mainly animals (troph. 2.8 and up)
Feeding type Ref.	Gaudêncio, M.J. and H.N. Cabral, 2007
Feeding habit	browsing on substrate
Feeding habit Ref.	Gaudêncio, M.J. and H.N. Cabral, 2007

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	3.87	0.18			Trophic level estimated from a number of food items using a randomized resampling routine.
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