Ecology and ethnoecology of dusky grouper [garoupa, Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe, 1834)] along the coast of Brazil

Table 2 Stomach contents on sub-samples of Epinephelus marginatuscollected in Bertioga (coast of São Paulo) and Copacabana (coast of Rio de Janeiro), Brazil.

Content	Bertioga	Copacabana	Total from the two localities	Total Length < = 400 mm	Total Length > 400 mm
Empty	9	12	21	11	10
Crabs	11	15	26	11	15
Fish¹	4	12	16	7	8
Shrimp	0	3	3	0	3
Rest of food^a	0	1	1	0	1
Total samples	22	39	61	27	32

^a Material mostly not identifiable, except for 2 sardines (Clupeidae) in the material from Bertioga.
Results are shown per class of total length: equal or less that 400 mm, and higher that 400 mm.

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