Bill :

Posting this table in hopes it will work. This is from the edges of Lake Pont. La. which is in varying degrees brackish with fresh water streams incomming. Most + in col 3 are RES food items.


TABLE 2.---Food items of four species of Lepomis from Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana.
L. L. L. L.
Food ilems macrochiras panctatus microlophus gulosus

Porifera
Ephydatia fiuviatilis + + +

Ectoprocta
Membranipora sp. +

Annelida
Polychaeta + + +

Mollusca
Littoridina sphinctosoma + + +
Rangia cuneata + +
Congeria leucophaeta + + +

Arthropoda
Arachnida +

Insecta
Baetidae +
Coenagrionidae +
Locustidac + +
Coccinellidae + + +
Chironomidae + + +
Tabanidae + +
Culicidae +
Formicidac + + +

Crustacea
Calanoida +
Balanus subalbidus + + +
Mysidopsis almyra + + +
Leptochelia rapaX + +
Cassidinideas p. + + +
Sphaeroma terebrans +
Cyathura polita + + +
Gammarus sp. 1 + + +
Gammarus sp. 2 + + +
Corophium louisianum + + +
Corophium lacustre +
Melita sp. + + +
Palaemonetes sp. +
Callinectes sapidus + +
Rhithropanopeus harrisii + + +
Procambarus sp. +

Osteichthyes
Lucania parva + +
Gambusia affinis +
Syngnathuss covelli +
Lepomis macrochirus
Gobiosoma bosci +

Chlorophyat
Cladophora sp. + + +

Trachaeophyat
Ceratophyllums p. + +
Vallisneria sp. + + +

Organic material + + +