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Table 3 Stomach contents of green (Chelonia mydas), loggerhead (Caretta caretta), and leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) sea turtles identified by DNA analysis at species or genus level, and the percentage frequency of occurrence (% FO), with the number of stomachs the item occurred in n (* represents the species detected from stomach contents of leatherback turtle, n = 1)

From: Occurrence and diet analysis of sea turtles in Korean shore

Stomach content

 

C. mydas

C. caretta

Green turtle

Loggerhead turtle

% FO (n = 9)

n

% FO (n = 16)

n

Phylum Cnidaria

     

 Cl. Scyphozoa

Cyanea nozakii

22.2

2

25.0

4

Phylum Arthropoda

     

 Cl. Malacostraca

Portunus trituberculatus

*

  

25.0

4

 

Portunus sanguinolentus

  

6.3

1

 

Pagurus spp.

  

6.3

1

Phylum Mollusca

     

 Cl. Gastropoda

Nassarius sinarus

*

11.1

1

6.3

1

 

Rapana venosa

  

6.3

1

 

Turbo cornutus

  

6.3

1

 Cl. Bivalvia

Mytilus spp.

  

6.3

1

 

Mytilus galloprovincialis

  

12.5

2

 Cl. Cephalopoda

Octopus vulgaris

11.1

1

  
 

Todarodes pacificus

  

6.3

1

Phylum Chordata

     

 Cl. Actinopterygii

Scomber spp.

  

6.3

1

 

Scomber japonicus

  

6.3

1

 

Scomberomorus niphonius

  

6.3

1

 

Decapterus maruadsi

  

12.5

2

 

Psenopsis spp.

  

6.3

1

 

Sphyraena pinguis

  

6.3

1

 

Hippocampus spp.

  

6.3

1

 Cl. Ascidiacea

Ascidia aspersa

  

6.3

1

Phylum Rhodophyta

     

 Cl. Florideophyceae

Grateloupia spp.

22.2

2

  
 

Grateloupia turuturu

22.2

2

  
 

Grateloupia angusta

11.1

1

  
 

Grateloupia filicina

11.1

1

  
 

Grateloupia lanceola

11.1

1

  
 

Grateloupia taiwanensis

11.1

1

  
 

Prionitis abbreviata

22.2

2

  
 

Polyopes constrictus

11.1

1

  
 

Ceramium sungminbooi

11.1

1

  
 

Melanothamnus harveyi

11.1

1

  
 

Gelidium elegans

11.1

1

  
 

Pterocladiella capillacea

11.1

1

  
 

Chondrus crispus

11.1

1

  
 

Gracilaria textorii

11.1

1

  
 

Scinaia undulata

11.1

1

  

Phylum Ochrophyta

     

 Cl. Phaeophyceae

Sargassum spp.

22.2

2

12.5

2

 

Sargassum thunbergii

55.6

5

6.3

1

 

Sargassum horneri

22.2

2

12.5

2

 

Saccharina japonica

33.3

3

25.0

4

 Cl. Ulvophyceae

Codium fragile

11.1

1

  
 

Ulva spp.

11.1

1

  

Phylum Magnoliophyta

     

 Cl. Liliopsida

Zostera marina

22.2

2

  
 

Alisma plantago-aquatica

11.1

1

  

 Cl. Magnoliopsida

 

11.1

1

  
 

Family. Tamaricaceae

  

6.3

1

Phylum Pinophyta

     

 Cl. Pinopsida

Pinus spp.

11.1

1

6.3

1

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