Taxonomic Remarks
Genus according to Matsuura (Ref. 9806).
Entorno: milieu / zona climática / rango de profundidad / gama de distribución
Ecología
marino asociado a arrecife; rango de profundidad 2 - 80 m (Ref. 1602). Tropical; 19°N - 20°S
Western Pacific: Sri Lanka (Ref. 1550) and Sumatra to Fiji, north to the Philippines; Palau and Truk in Micronesia. Matsuura 1999, pers. comm. strongly doubts its distribution in the southern GBR (as reported in Lieske & Meyers 1994, Ref. 9710) and does not know of any reliable record of this species from East Africa.
Tamaño / Peso / Edad
Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 30.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 2334)
Descripción breve
Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría
Espinas dorsales (total) : 0; Radios blandos dorsales (total) : 9; Espinas anales: 0; Radios blandos anales: 9. Has a small protuberance above the mouth and a distinctly concave snout profile.
Body shape (shape guide): short and / or deep.
Found around rocky and sandy substrates (Ref. 1602). Solitary, also found in sheltered bays exposed to heavy silt and mud bottoms of coastal trawling grounds (Ref. 90102).
Ciclo vital y comportamiento de apareamiento
Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva
Matsuura, K., 2001. Ostraciidae. Boxfishes. p. 3948-3951. In K.E. Carpenter and V. Niem (eds.) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Vol. 6. Bony fishes part 4 (Labridae to Latimeriidae), estuarine crocodiles. FAO, Rome. (Ref. 9806)
Situación en la Lista Roja de la UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
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Venomous
Usos humanos
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Estimaciones basadas en modelos
Índice de diversidad filogenética (Referencia 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5020 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.03715 (0.01854 - 0.07445), b=2.80 (2.62 - 2.98), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278) |
3.2 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Resiliencia (Referencia 120179) |
Alto, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo inferior a 15 meses (Fec assumed to be > 10,000). |
Vulnerabilidad pesquera (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (16 of 100). 🛈 |
Nutrientes (Ref. 124155) |
Calcium = 47.6 [20.5, 105.6] mg/100g; Iron = 0.655 [0.340, 1.443] mg/100g; Protein = 18.1 [15.8, 20.2] %; Omega3 = 0.113 [0.057, 0.215] g/100g; Selenium = 41.8 [21.8, 87.6] μg/100g; VitaminA = 48 [13, 176] μg/100g; Zinc = 1.23 [0.83, 1.81] mg/100g (wet weight); |