ABSTRACT
Indo-pacific and other Tropical Regions Th ere are only few studies of the prey of gobies from the tropics. Th e extent investigations of Hiatt and Strasburg (1960) of reef fi shes of the Marshall Islands, Central Pacific, comprised also the prey of six goby species, three of larger, three of smaller size (Table 3.1.2). Th e larger species live on sand bottoms or in tidal pools and exploit especially crustaceans of diff erent sizes, the intertidal Bathygobius fuscus preys also on fi sh and not on small copepods. Th ese larger species conspicuously ingest also algae. Th e smaller species live between the branches of corals where they exploit several crustacean groups, but only Gobiodon rivulatus preys on copepods. G. erythrocephalus profi ts from spawning of other fi sh between the ramose corals, because it feeds on their eggs. Lophogobius cyprinoides from Florida is also an opportunistic feeder, which ingests diverse crustaceans, molluscs and barnacles, but the greatest part of their food comprises algae (Darcy, 1981).
