Ecology Summary - Eledone cirrhosa

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Ecology of Eledone cirrhosa

Main Ref.	Roper, C.F.E., M.J. Sweeney and C.E. Nauen, 1984
Remarks	Occurs from sand and mud, to broken rock and rocky reefs (Ref. 96968). Females predominate at depths of 30 to 80 m, males at depths below 100 m (Ref. 275).

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 Eledone cirrhosa may be found.

Habitat

Substrate	Benthic: mobile; demersal; Soft Bottom: sand; mud; Hard Bottom: rocky;
Substrate Ref.	Piatkowski, U., 2006
Special habitats	Coral Reefs;
Special habitats Ref.	Jereb, P., C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman and J.K. Finn, 2014

Associations

Ref.	Piatkowski, U., 2006
Associations
Associated with
Association remarks
Parasitism

feeding

Feeding type	mainly animals (troph. 2.8 and up)
Feeding type Ref.	Jereb, P., C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman and J.K. Finn, 2014
Feeding habit	hunting macrofauna (predator)
Feeding habit Ref.	Jereb, P., C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman and J.K. Finn, 2014

Trophic Level(s)

Estimation method	original sample		unfished population		Remark
Estimation method	Troph	s.e.	Troph	s.e.	Remark
From diet composition	3.73	0.58			Troph of juv./adults.
From individual food items	3.72	0.49			Trophic level estimated from a number of food items using a randomized resampling routine.
Ref.	Regueira, M., A. Guerra, C.M. Fernández-Jardón and A.F. González, 2017