Table
9.19. Rates of heterotrophic feeding of octocorals (A) and the shares of various sources of food in compensation for their total energy
::t
demand (A/MG).
(Data by Sorokin 1990a)
~
(1)
...,
S
Taxa
Species of corals
Kinds of food
Total
a
A/MG
"0
0Zooplankton
Planktonic algae
Bacterioplankton
DOM
n'
'Tl
(1)
A
A/MG
A
A/MG
A
A/MG
A
A/MG
(1)
0.
S·
(JQ
Family
Nephthea sp.
34 b
3
8
7
17
2
43
4
6
0
.....
AIcyonaceae
Spongotes sp.
3120"
144
26
1
145
7
70
3
155
()
Family
Echinogorgia gigantea
1540"
87
28
2
42
2
24
1
92
0
...,
III
Gorgonaceae
Plexauroides lenzii
757"
52
50
4
70
4
17
2
62
v;
Bebryce indica
1320"
100
23
2
117
9
50
4
115
Acabaria nicksoni
1280'
115
36
3
82
7
27
2
127
Mopsella aurantia
45"
6
220
34
110
16
26
4
60
Order Scleractinia
Tubastrea
176"
280
8
13
44
70
"Food nauplii of
Artemia. b
Food rotifers
Brachionus.
VJ
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