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Trichiuridae (Cutlassfishes) > Trichiurinae
Etymology: Lepturacanthus: Greek, leptos = thin + Greek, oura = tail + Greek, akantha = thorn (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Dr V R Pantulu was a biologist at the Central Inland Fisheries Research Station, Calcutta and had been a fisheries scientist in West Bengal (type locality). [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Meio ambiente: milieu / Zona climática / intervalo de profundidade / faixa de distribuição
Ecologia
marinhas; estuarina bentopelágico; intervalo de profundidade 0 - 80 m (Ref. 6181). Tropical; 21°N - 5°N, 76°E - 87°E (Ref. 6181)
Indian Ocean: Hooghly estuaries to Gulf of Mannar in the east coast of India.
Tamanho / Peso / Idade
Maturidade: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 92.0 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 6181); common length : 40.0 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 6181)
Espinhos dorsais (total) : 3; Raios dorsais (total) : 121 - 131; Espinhos anais: 2; Raios anais : 74 - 84. Body extremely elongate, compressed and tapering to a point. Anal fin reduced to a long spine and 74 - 84 smaller spinules; pelvic and caudal fins absent. Lateral line running nearer the ventral contour than the dorsal contour of the body. Body color steely blue with metallic reflections in fresh specimens, becoming silvery gray after death.
Body shape (shape guide): elongated; Cross section: compressed.
Benthopelagic or pelagic in estuaries and coastal waters. Feeds on a wide variety of small fishes and crustaceans chiefly on prawns, young clupeoids, Harpodon nehereus and Trichiurus spp. in Hooghly estuaries, India. Caught mainly with bag nets in estuaries, with shore seines and boat seines in inshore waters, and with trawls in off-shore waters. Marketed fresh as well as dried salted.
Ciclo de vida ou comportamento de acasalamento
Maturidade | Reprodução | Desova | Ovos | Fecundidade | Larvas
Nakamura, I. and N.V. Parin, 1993. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 15. Snake mackerels and cutlassfishes of the world (families Gempylidae and Trichiuridae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the snake mackerels, snoeks, escolars, gemfishes, sackfishes, domine, oilfish, cutlassfishes,. scabbardfishes, hairtails, and frostfishes known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(15):136 p. (Ref. 6181)
Status na Lista Vermelha da UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Ameaça para os humanos
Harmless
Uso pelos humanos
Pescarias: pouco comercial
Ferramentas
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Estimativas baseadas em modelos
Índice de diversidade filogenética (Ref. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.6250 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.00191 (0.00078 - 0.00464), b=3.12 (2.91 - 3.33), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Nível Trófico (Ref. 69278) |
4.1 ±0.71 se; based on food items. |
Resiliência (Ref. 120179) |
médio(a), tempo mínimo de duplicação da população 1,4 - 4,4 anos (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
Vulnerabilidade da pesca (Ref. 59153) |
Moderate vulnerability (36 of 100). 🛈 |
Categoria de preço (Ref. 80766) |
Medium.
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