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Table 3
Sex, size and season based prey importance in Coryphaena hippurus.
| Prey Species | Sex-wise | Size-wise (fork length) | Season-wise | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males (n = 266) | Females (n = 514) | < 45.0 cm (n = 106) | 45.0–59.9 cm (n = 330) | 60.0 − 74.9 cm (n = 240) | 75 cm and above (n = 104) | Summer (n = 156) | Monsoon (n = 278) | Winter ( = 346) | |
| Big-eye scad | 20.238 | 33.173 | 8.336 | 20.700 | 33.223 | 24.645 | 17.958 | 18.735 | 26.925 |
| Unidentified semi-digested finfishes | 11.148 | 26.303 | 14.959 | 25.148 | 11.575 | 33.269 | 24.047 | 16.251 | 23.445 |
| Squid | 12.360 | 9.028 | 10.930 | 9.656 | 18.197 | 0.955 | 10.860 | 9.763 | 10.172 |
| Crabs | 5.448 | 11.090 | 5.577 | 24.189 | 4.721 | 0.164 | 8.144 | 5.196 | 14.069 |
| Indian Mackerel | 16.470 | 3.933 | 4.592 | 2.387 | 10.462 | 13.308 | 8.069 | 4.750 | 9.994 |
| Indian scad | 10.463 | 4.084 | 3.902 | 7.726 | 5.707 | 3.887 | 0.801 | 0.621 | 11.161 |
| Sardines | 9.499 | 3.685 | 0.527 | 4.501 | 4.251 | 13.169 | 24.074 | 0.096 | |
| Whitebaits | 8.550 | 3.408 | 45.133 | 3.552 | 1.084 | 1.477 | 9.658 | 16.363 | 1.091 |
| Flyingfish | 2.805 | 1.030 | 0.106 | 6.614 | 4.730 | 1.024 | 1.726 | 0.680 | |
| Tunas | 1.723 | 0.138 | 0.471 | 0.030 | 0.385 | 2.920 | 4.012 | 0.345 | 0.026 |
| Torpedo scad | 0.047 | 1.718 | 1.923 | 0.372 | 2.752 | 6.590 | 1.634 | ||
| Pufferfish | 1.122 | 1.202 | 0.508 | 0.026 | 5.425 | 0.105 | 0.416 | ||
| Shrimp scad | 0.040 | 0.793 | 0.713 | 0.136 | 0.634 | 0.842 | 0.131 | 1.282 | 0.159 |
| Ribbonfish | 1.011 | 0.032 | 1.365 | 0.435 | 0.156 | 1.489 | 0.010 | ||
| Speckled shrimp | 0.311 | 0.237 | 0.129 | 0.186 | 0.370 | 0.464 | 0.027 | ||
| Triggerfish | 0.014 | 0.079 | 0.154 | 0.104 | 0.541 | 0.083 | 0.007 | ||
| Sciaenids | 0.075 | 0.004 | 0.040 | 0.017 | 0.535 | 0.009 | |||
| Tardoore | 0.027 | 0.011 | 0.369 | 0.027 | 0.348 | ||||
| Squilla | 0.019 | 0.012 | 0.089 | 0.073 | |||||
| Cuttlefish | 0.016 | 0.180 | 0.070 | ||||||
| Unidentified Fish eggs | 0.010 | 0.013 | 0.050 | 0.041 | |||||
| Tripodfish | 0.046 | 0.028 | 0.039 | ||||||
| Thinspine Catfish | 0.009 | 0.036 | 0.040 | ||||||
| Numbfish | 0.005 | 0.027 | 0.022 | ||||||
| Goatfish | 0.018 | 0.017 | 0.015 | ||||||
| Pipefish | 0.004 | 0.061 | 0.015 | ||||||
| Octopus | 0.003 | 0.009 | 0.007 | ||||||
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