Ambiente: milieu / zona climatica / distribuzione batimetrica / gamma di distribuzione
Ecologia
marino associati a barriera corallina; distribuzione batimetrica 0 - 85 m (Ref. 9626), usually 5 - 30 m (Ref. 9626). Tropical; 28°N - 25°S, 91°W - 31°W
Western Atlantic: Bahamas to Brazil, including the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico and throughout the Caribbean Sea.
Dimensione / Peso / Età
Maturità: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 37.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 26340); common length : 30.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 3815)
Spine dorsali (totale) : 12; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 12; Spine anali: 3; Raggi anali molli: 10. Dorsal profile of head moderately steep; prefrontal tubercle not well developed; silvery with a lavender iridescence, the edges of the scales brownish yellow and the centers with a vertically elongate iridescent blue-green or blue spot (Ref. 13442).
Body shape (shape guide): short and / or deep.
Adults often seen over rocky areas or reefs, but also on flat bottoms to about 85 m depth, while the young inhabit shallower waters (Ref. 3815). Feeds on crabs, mollusks, worms, brittle stars and hermit crabs (Ref. 3815). This is the most common species of the genus in the Antilles (Ref. 3815). Important food fish (Ref. 3815).
Ciclo vitale e comportamento di accoppiamento
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecondità | Larve
Cervigón, F., 1993. Los peces marinos de Venezuela. Volume 2. Fundación Científica Los Roques, Caracas,Venezuela. 497 p. (Ref. 9626)
Stato della Lista Rossa IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Minaccia per l'uomo
Reports of ciguatera poisoning (Ref. 30303)
Usi umani
Pesca: commerciale; Pesce da pesca sportiva: si
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Stime basate su modelli
Indice di diversità filogenetica (Fonte Biblio. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5001 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.01950 (0.01287 - 0.02953), b=2.93 (2.81 - 3.05), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Livello trofico (Fonte Biblio. 69278) |
3.7 ±0.2 se; based on diet studies. |
Resilienza (Fonte Biblio. 120179) |
Medio, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 1.4 - 4.4 anni (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
Vulnerabilità della pesca (Ref. 59153) |
Moderate vulnerability (37 of 100). 🛈 |
Categoria di prezzo (Ref. 80766) |
Medium.
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Nutrienti (Ref. 124155) |
Calcium = 45.5 [21.0, 91.8] mg/100g; Iron = 0.561 [0.298, 1.114] mg/100g; Protein = 19.3 [18.0, 20.7] %; Omega3 = 0.124 [0.075, 0.208] g/100g; Selenium = 33.9 [17.7, 64.2] μg/100g; VitaminA = 58.9 [14.9, 219.9] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.977 [0.631, 1.411] mg/100g (wet weight); |