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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.
Ambiente: milieu / zona climatica / distribuzione batimetrica / gamma di distribuzione
Ecologia
marino associati a barriera corallina; distribuzione batimetrica 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).
Dimensione / Peso / Età
Maturità: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 7.5 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 90102)
Breve descrizione
Chiavi di identificazione | Morfologia | Morfometria
Spine dorsali (totale) : 0; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 78 - 84; Spine anali: 0; Raggi anali molli: 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).
Ciclo vitale e comportamento di accoppiamento
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecondità | Larve
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)
Stato della Lista Rossa IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Minaccia per l'uomo
Harmless
Usi umani
Pesca: di nessun interesse
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Stime basate su modelli
Indice di diversità filogenetica (Fonte Biblio. 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). |
Livello trofico (Fonte Biblio. 69278) |
3.3 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Resilienza (Fonte Biblio. 120179) |
Basso, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 4.5 - 14 anni (Assuming Fec < 100). |
Vulnerabilità della pesca (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (12 of 100). 🛈 |
Nutrienti (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); |