Electronic supplementary material to Helgoland Marine Research submission ‘Spatial variation of reef fishes and the relative influence of biotic and abiotic habitat traits

Iacopo Bertocci*1,2, I. Sousa-Pinto1,3, P. Duarte1,4

1CIIMAR/CIMAR, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental,

Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Av. General Norton de Matos s/n, 4450-208, Matosinhos, Portugal

2Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121, Naples, Italy

3 Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal

4 Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, Post box 6606 Langnes, N-9296 Tromsø, Norway

* corresponding author

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List of fish species or higher taxa observed during the study, classified according to their spatial guild (B, benthic; PB, Proximo-benthic; P, pelagic), Diet (O, Omnivorous; Bi, Browsers of benthic invertebrates; Pm, Active predators of mobile animals; Pk, Planktivorous), and type of eggs (B, benthic; P, Pelagic) (Froese and Pauly 2015).

Fish taxa Spatial guild Diet Eggs

Atherinidae

Atherina boyeri Risso 1810 P Pk P

Blenniidae

Parablennius gattorugine (Linnaeus 1758) B O B

Carangidae

Trachurus sp. P Pm P

Gadidae

Pollachius pollachius (Linnaeus 1758) PB Pm P

Trisopterus minutus (Linnaeus 1758) PB Pm P

Trisopterus spp. PB Pm P

Labridae

Ctenolabrus rupestris (Linnaeus 1758) B Bi B

Labrus spp. B Bi B

Labrus bergylta Ascanius 1767 B Bi B

Labrus viridis Linnaeus 1758 B Bi B

Symphodus spp. B Bi B

Thalassoma pavo (Linnaeus 1758) B Bi B

Moronidae

Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus 1758) PB Pm P

Mugilidae PB O P

Rajidae

Raja sp. B Bi B

Scorpaenidae

Scorpaena spp. B Pm P

Scorpaena scrofa Linnaeus 1758 B Pm P

Serranidae

Serranus atricauda Günther 1874 B Pm P

Serranus scriba (Linnaeus 1758) B Pm P

Sparidae

Boops boops (Linnaeus 1758) PB O P

Diplodus sargus (Linnaeus 1758) PB Bi P

Diplodus vulgaris (Geoffroy Saint-Hilarie 1817) PB Bi P