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Emmelichthyidae (Rovers)
Etymology: Plagiogeneion: Greek, plagios = oblique + Greek, geny, genyos, diminutive = face (Ref. 45335).
Environnement : milieu / zone climatique / profondeur / gamme de distribution
Écologie
marin bathydémersal; profondeur 30 - 600 m (Ref. 106682). Deep-water; 22°S - 40°S, 14°E - 170°E
Southeast Atlantic: Vema Seamount west of Cape Town and off Algoa Bay, and Walvis Bay in Namibia. Southern Indo-West Pacific: St. Paul and Amsterdam Islands, southern Australia, and New Zealand.
Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturité: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 60.0 cm TL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 5325); common length : 40.0 cm TL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 115123); âge max. reporté: 10 années (Ref. 35378)
Description synthétique
Clés d'identification | Morphologie | Morphométrie
Épines dorsales (Total) : 12; Rayons mous dorsaux (Total) : 10 - 12; Épines anales: 3; Rayons mous anaux: 10. Rosy pink in color, brownish dorsally, silvery below; fins red, tips of caudal fin blackish (Ref. 5325).
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal.
Adults occur near sandy or muddy bottom in deep water. Feeds on larger zooplankton (Ref. 3394). Marketed fresh or frozen and proves to be an excellent foodfish (Ref. 115123).
Cycle de vie et comportement reproducteur
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
Heemstra, P.C., 2016. Emmelichthyidae. pp. 2526-2533. In K.E. Carpenter and N. De Angelis (eds.). The living marine resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. Vol. 4: Bony fishes part 2 (Perciformes to Tetradontiformes) and sea turtles. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes, Rome, FAO. pp. 2343-3124. (Ref. 115123)
Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Menace pour l'homme
Harmless
Utilisations par l'homme
Pêcheries: commercial
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Estimations basées sur des modèles
Indice de diversité phylogénétique (Réf. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5313 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.01047 (0.00482 - 0.02276), b=3.08 (2.88 - 3.28), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245). |
Niveau trophique (Réf. 69278) |
3.4 ±0.45 se; based on food items. |
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Generation time |
3.7 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 1 growth studies. |
Résilience (Réf. 120179) |
Milieu, temps minimum de doublement de population : 1,4 à 4,4 années (tmax=10; K=0.33; tm=3-4). |
Vulnérabilité de la pêche (Ref. 59153) |
Moderate vulnerability (41 of 100). 🛈 |
Catégorie de prix (Ref. 80766) |
High.
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Nutriments (Ref. 124155) |
Calcium = 24 [15, 56] mg/100g; Iron = 0.518 [0.212, 0.995] mg/100g; Protein = 17.8 [16.8, 18.7] %; Omega3 = 0.365 [0.214, 0.620] g/100g; Selenium = 18.2 [8.0, 38.5] μg/100g; VitaminA = 11.7 [2.7, 51.2] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.367 [0.255, 0.547] mg/100g (wet weight); |