| dietary partitioning by five sympatric species of stingray (dasyatidae) on coral reefs. | dietary characteristics and the degree of dietary partitioning by five species of sympatric stingray were assessed using stomach content and sediment analyses within a coral reef lagoon at ningaloo reef, western australia (the cowtail pastinachus atrus, blue-spotted fantail taeniura lymma, blue-spotted mask neotrygon kuhlii, porcupine urogymnus asperrimus rays and the reticulate whipray himantura uarnak). a total of 2804 items were recovered from the stomachs of 170 rays and 3215 individual taxa ... | 2013 | 23731138 |