Abstract
Abstract. An analysis was made of polychaete prey in the guts of 5 species of goatfishes (Mullidiw): Upeneus usymmetricus, a Lessepsian migrant goatfish collected from both Mediterranean and Elat (Red Sea) locations; Mullus sunnuletus, ill. burbcuus, and U. moluccensis, a Lessepsian migrant taken only in the eastern Mediterranean; and Mulloides flavolineatus, collected in the Gulf of Elat. Mullus barbutus accounts for nine new polychaete records for the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Mulloides flavolineatus fed on two species which arc new records for the Gulf of Elat; one, Lumbrineris meteorunu, is a new record for the Red Sea. The polychaete prey provides some information on the ecology of the fishes: There appears to be little overlap regarding polychaete prey among the different goatfish species in the Mediterranean.
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