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Tetraodontidae (Puffers) > Canthigasterinae
Etymology: Canthigaster: Greek, kanthos = the outer or inner corner of the eye, where the lids meet, 1646 + Greek, gaster = stomach (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Daniel Carl [Karl] Solander (1733–1782) was a Swedish naturalist and explorer who was one of Linnaeus’s pupils at Uppsala. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on author: Richardson.
Taxonomic Remarks
Occurrence of this species need to be reviewed.
Entorno: milieu / zona climática / rango de profundidad / gama de distribución
Ecología
marino asociado a arrecife; no migratorio (Ref. 52884); rango de profundidad 10 - 36 m (Ref. 1602). Tropical; 30°N - 24°S
Central Pacific, including Hawaiian Islands. Indian Ocean species were re-identified as Canthigaster petersii (Ref. 123151).
Population from the Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, Queensland, and Belau differs in coloration (formerly Canthigaster papua);
Replaced by Canthigaster margaritata in the Red Sea.
Tamaño / Peso / Edad
Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 12.1 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 126022); peso máximo publicado: 32.16 g (Ref. 126022)
Descripción breve
Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría
Espinas dorsales (total) : 0; Radios blandos dorsales (total) : 8 - 10; Espinas anales: 0; Radios blandos anales: 8 - 10. Ocellus at base of dorsal fin; dark lines radiating from eye; caudal fin brown with pale spots, outer rows may form wavy lines (Ref. 4919).
Body shape (shape guide): short and / or deep.
Adults inhabit sheltered rocky reefs (Ref. 48637). Also live in intertidal reef flats, lagoon and seaward reefs. They occur over open barren areas, also among corals and under ledges (Ref. 9710). Benthopelagic (Ref. 58302). Often found in pairs, sometimes in small groups. Adults feed mainly on filamentous red and green algae and coralline red algae but also on corals, tunicates, mollusks, echinoderms, polychaetes, crustaceans and bryozoans. Common (Ref. 9710). Monogamous (Ref. 52884).
Ciclo vital y comportamiento de apareamiento
Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva
Oviparous (Ref. 205). Displays facultative monogamy where males are constrained to mate with a single female due to resource limitation (Ref. 52884).
Matsuura, K., S.V. Bogorodsky, A.O. Mal and T.J. Alpermann, 2020. Canthigaster aziz, a new deep-dwelling toby fish (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) from the Red Sea. Zootaxa 4834(1):81-95. (Ref. 123151)
Situación en la Lista Roja de la UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Amenaza para el ser humano
Harmless
Usos humanos
Pesquerías: comercial; Acuario: Comercial
Herramientas
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Estimaciones basadas en modelos
Índice de diversidad filogenética (Referencia 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=0.03162 (0.01857 - 0.05386), b=2.84 (2.69 - 2.99), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278) |
3.6 ±0.23 se; based on food items. |
Resiliencia (Referencia 120179) |
Alto, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo inferior a 15 meses (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
Vulnerabilidad pesquera (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (11 of 100). 🛈 |
Categoría de precios (Ref. 80766) |
Very high.
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Nutrientes (Ref. 124155) |
Calcium = 110 [51, 262] mg/100g; Iron = 1.02 [0.49, 2.36] mg/100g; Protein = 18.1 [15.8, 20.2] %; Omega3 = 0.127 [0.061, 0.255] g/100g; Selenium = 35.6 [16.8, 79.4] μg/100g; VitaminA = 50.2 [13.8, 194.7] μg/100g; Zinc = 1.75 [1.11, 2.63] mg/100g (wet weight); |