Environnement : milieu / zone climatique / profondeur / gamme de distribution
Écologie
marin récifal; non migrateur (Ref. 52884); profondeur 0 - 40 m (Ref. 9710). Tropical; 33°N - 7°N, 96°W - 58°W
Western Atlantic: Bermuda and southern Florida, USA to northern South America; throughout the Caribbean (Ref. 13442). Including Antilles (Ref. 26938).
Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturité: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 29.0 cm FL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 6937)
Épines dorsales (Total) : 10; Rayons mous dorsaux (Total) : 12. Snout long and pointed. Black stripes and bars forming irregular rectangles on body. Has unique pointed snout and distinct color pattern make it easy to identify (Ref. 26938).
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal.
Most common in areas with rock or scattered coral. Solitary or in pairs. Adults feed mainly upon crustaceans (Ref. 5521). Synchronously hermaphroditic. The most common member of the genus (Ref. 9710). Monogamous and always in home-ranging pairs, that is, they do not defend an exclusive territory (Ref. 52884).
Cycle de vie et comportement reproducteur
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
Displays facultative monogamy where males are constrained to mate with a single female due to resource limitation (Ref. 52884). Pelagic spawner (Ref. 32216).
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)
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; Aquarium: Commercial
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Estimations basées sur des modèles
Indice de diversité phylogénétique (Réf. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.01023 (0.00609 - 0.01719), b=3.04 (2.90 - 3.18), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Niveau trophique (Réf. 69278) |
3.5 ±0.37 se; based on food items. |
Résilience (Réf. 120179) |
Milieu, temps minimum de doublement de population : 1,4 à 4,4 années (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
Vulnérabilité de la pêche (Ref. 59153) |
Moderate to high vulnerability (45 of 100). 🛈 |
Catégorie de prix (Ref. 80766) |
Medium.
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Nutriments (Ref. 124155) |
Calcium = 50.5 [31.2, 89.5] mg/100g; Iron = 0.572 [0.316, 0.948] mg/100g; Protein = 18.4 [16.6, 20.0] %; Omega3 = 0.148 [0.100, 0.221] g/100g; Selenium = 28.3 [18.0, 49.0] μg/100g; VitaminA = 112 [41, 346] μg/100g; Zinc = 1.29 [0.90, 1.80] mg/100g (wet weight); |