Author: (Valenciennes, 1840)
FBname: Blue weed whiting
Comments: Forms large schools in estuaries and other sheltered waters with sand and seagrass bottoms.  Considered primarily as an opportunistic carnivore, feeding mainly on polychaetes; also gastropods, crustaceans (crab and amphipods), algae and seagrass (mostly <i>Zostera</i>) are common; forams, bivalves, and ophiuroids were also found in a few stomachs.