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Mullidae (Goatfishes)
Etymology: Upeneus: Greek, ypene, -es = upper lip (Ref. 45335); alama: Name 'alama' in honor of the late Mr. Ulysses Banga Alama from College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, Miagao, Iloilo, Philippines for his contributions to marine ichthyology. A noun in apposition.
Environnement : milieu / zone climatique / profondeur / gamme de distribution
Écologie
marin démersal; profondeur ? - 22 m (Ref. 138759). Tropical
Western Central Pacific: Philippines.
Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturité: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 12.5 cm SL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 138759)
Description synthétique
Clés d'identification | Morphologie | Morphométrie
Épines dorsales (Total) : 8; Rayons mous dorsaux (Total) : 9. This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following set of characters: dorsal fins VIII + 9; pectoral fins 16; gill rakers 8-9 upper + 20-22 lower = 28-31 total; lateral-line scales 33; body moderately deep; measurements as % SL: body depth at anal-fin origin 25-28; maximum head depth 26; head depth through eye 22; suborbital depth 14; head length 34; snout length 13; postorbital length 14; upper-jaw length 15; barbel length 28-30; barbel width 1.6-1.7; caudal-peduncle length 21-22; second dorsal-fin base length 14; caudal-fin length 28-32; length of anal-fin base 9.8-9.9; anal-fin height 15-17; pelvic-fin length 20; pectoral-fin length 28; pectoral-fin width 5.5-5.9; first dorsal-fin height 24-25; first two or three long dorsal-fin spines protruding; second dorsal-fin height 17; caudal fin without bars; first dorsal fin with black tip, retained in preservative; preserved fish with silvery-whitish head, pale brown body ventrally and dark brown dorsally; fins except for first dorsal-fin tip pale brown, partly hyaline; and pale, long barbels (Ref. 138759).
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal.
Cycle de vie et comportement reproducteur
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
Uiblein, F., H. Motomura, P.R. Møller, M.H. Sabaj Pérez, S. Boonphienphol, T.A. Hoang and K. Parkinson, 2025. Two new goatfish species of the Upeneus sulphureus-species group (Mullidae), with a redescription of U. sulphureus Cuvier, 1829 and a review of barbel length in the genus. Ichthyol. Herpetol. 113(3):453-486. (Ref. 138759)
Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Menace pour l'homme
Harmless
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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=0.00955 (0.00454 - 0.02011), b=3.09 (2.92 - 3.26), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Niveau trophique (Réf. 69278) |
3.4 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Résilience (Réf. 120179) |
Haut, temps minimum de doublement de population inférieur à 15 mois (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
Vulnérabilité de la pêche (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (10 of 100). 🛈 |