Entorno: milieu / zona climática / rango de profundidad / gama de distribución
Ecología
marino; salobre asociado a arrecife; rango de profundidad 0 - 60 m (Ref. 3197). Tropical; 37°N - 35°S, 25°E - 127°W
Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa (to Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Ref. 3197) to the Hawaiian Islands.
Tamaño / Peso / Edad
Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 70.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 3287); common length : 30.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 9137); peso máximo publicado: 8.0 kg (Ref. 3287)
Espinas dorsales (total) : 9; Radios blandos dorsales (total) : 26 - 34; Espinas anales: 3; Radios blandos anales: 21 - 26.
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal; Cross section: compressed.
Adults are found in coastal waters adjacent to sandy beaches; also found to depths of 60 m, often near reefs (Ref. 30573). Pelagic (Ref. 58302). Singly or in small groups (Ref. 48635). They feed mainly on mollusks, benthic crustaceans, and occasionally on small fish (Ref. 90102) that are abundant in the lagoons. Excellent food fish (Ref. 12484), the flesh is rarely poisonous. Minimum depth reported taken from Ref. 128797.
Ciclo vital y comportamiento de apareamiento
Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva
Paxton, J.R., D.F. Hoese, G.R. Allen and J.E. Hanley, 1989. Pisces. Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 7. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 665 p. (Ref. 7300)
Situación en la Lista Roja de la UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Amenaza para el ser humano
Reports of ciguatera poisoning (Ref. 31637)
Usos humanos
Pesquerías: comercial; pesca deportiva: si
Herramientas
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Estimaciones basadas en modelos
Índice de diversidad filogenética (Referencia 82804) |
PD50 = 0.7500 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.01380 (0.01225 - 0.01555), b=2.97 (2.94 - 3.00), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245). |
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278) |
4.3 ±0.5 se; based on diet studies. |
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Generation time |
5.2 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 1 growth studies. |
Resiliencia (Referencia 120179) |
Medio, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 1.4-4.4 años (K=0.21). |
Vulnerabilidad pesquera (Ref. 59153) |
Moderate vulnerability (44 of 100). 🛈 |
Categoría de precios (Ref. 80766) |
Medium.
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Nutrientes (Ref. 124155) |
Calcium = 24.8 [14.7, 59.0] mg/100g; Iron = 1.14 [0.53, 2.38] mg/100g; Protein = 20.3 [17.8, 22.5] %; Omega3 = 0.173 [0.093, 0.327] g/100g; Selenium = 9.04 [4.21, 19.62] μg/100g; VitaminA = 84.9 [13.8, 505.2] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.701 [0.372, 1.513] mg/100g (wet weight); |