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Bythitidae (Livebearing brotulas)
Etymology: Brosmophyciops: Greek, brosomai, bibrosko = to eat up, to devour + Greek, phykis = a fish that lives among alga (Greek, phyke) + Greek, ops =appearance (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Clarence F Pautzke (1907–1971) was the chief biologist, Game Department, State of Washington. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on author: Schultz.
Environnement : milieu / zone climatique / profondeur / gamme de distribution
Écologie
marin récifal; profondeur 6 - 54 m (Ref. 1602). Tropical; 30°N - 27°S
Indo-Pacific: Red Sea to Samoa and the Austral Islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to Rowley Shoals. Recorded from the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Thailand (Ref. 34024).
Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturité: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 7.5 cm TL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 90102)
Description synthétique
Clés d'identification | Morphologie | Morphométrie
Épines dorsales (Total) : 0; Rayons mous dorsaux (Total) : 78 - 84; Épines anales: 0; Rayons mous anaux: 58 - 62. When alive, body coloration is brown with translucent orange fins and is covered in a thick granular mucus (Ref. 1602).
Body shape (shape guide): elongated; Cross section: compressed.
Lives in the interstices of lagoon or seaward reefs (Ref. 1602). Benthic (Ref. 75154). Body covered with heavy coating of mucus (Ref. 1602).
Cycle de vie et comportement reproducteur
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
Nielsen, J.G., D.M. Cohen, D.F. Markle and C.R. Robins, 1999. Ophidiiform fishes of the world (Order Ophidiiformes). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eels, brotulas and other ophidiiform fishes known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(18):178p. Rome: FAO. (Ref. 34024)
Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Menace pour l'homme
Harmless
Utilisations par l'homme
Pêcheries: sans intérêt
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Estimations basées sur des modèles
Indice de diversité phylogénétique (Réf. 82804) |
PD50 = 1.0000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.00468 (0.00186 - 0.01174), b=3.03 (2.81 - 3.25), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Niveau trophique (Réf. 69278) |
3.3 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Résilience (Réf. 120179) |
Faible, temps minimum de doublement de population : 4,5 à 14 années (Assuming Fec < 100). |
Vulnérabilité de la pêche (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (12 of 100). 🛈 |
Nutriments (Ref. 124155) |
Calcium = 174 [93, 333] mg/100g; Iron = 1.02 [0.58, 1.78] mg/100g; Protein = 16.7 [14.2, 19.2] %; Omega3 = 0.126 [0.068, 0.228] g/100g; Selenium = 32.8 [15.8, 77.0] μg/100g; VitaminA = 109 [31, 375] μg/100g; Zinc = 2.51 [1.66, 3.61] mg/100g (wet weight); |