Milieu: milieu / Klimaatzone / Diepte / verspreidingsgebied
Ecologie
marien; brak water rifbewoner. Subtropical
Western Atlantic: Bermuda, Florida Keys (USA), and Bahamas to northern South America. Scarce in western Gulf of Mexico (Ref. 26938).
Grootte / Gewicht / Leeftijd
Maturiteit: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 15.0 cm TL mannelijk / geslacht onbekend; (Ref. 7251); 50.0 cm TL (female)
A very, slender, elongate, cylindrical eel with a projecting lower jaw. Lateral line complete ending at base of tail. (Ref. 26938).
Body shape (shape guide): eel-like.
Young and females burrow in sandy tide pools and reef tracts. Males inhabit deeper water, possibly pelagic. Adults emerge at night and sometimes come to lights at the surface (Ref. 26938). Feed on burrowing invertebrates that live in the sand (Ref. 26938).
Levenscyclus en paargedrag
Maturiteit | Voortplanting | Paaien | Eieren | Fecunditeit | Larven
Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray, 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref. 7251)
Status op de Rode Lijst van het IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
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Harmless
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Fylogenetische diversiteitsindex (Ref. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5002 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.00102 (0.00046 - 0.00225), b=3.06 (2.88 - 3.24), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Trofisch niveau (Ref. 69278) |
3.5 ±0.37 se; based on food items. |
Kwetsbaarheid van de visserij (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (25 of 100). 🛈 |
Voedingsstoffen (Ref. 124155) |
Calcium = 50 [20, 135] mg/100g; Iron = 0.584 [0.290, 1.102] mg/100g; Protein = 19.1 [16.8, 21.6] %; Omega3 = 0.203 [0.081, 0.560] g/100g; Selenium = 10.4 [4.1, 25.2] μg/100g; VitaminA = 114 [26, 489] μg/100g; Zinc = 1.4 [0.8, 2.2] mg/100g (wet weight); |