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Common names: Butterfish, Pacific butterfish, Pacific pompano
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Importance: minor commercial | Ref: Hart, J.L., 1973
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Periodically abundant in California. Found in California markets (Ref. 6885).
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Eschmeyer, W.N., E.S. Herald and H. Hammann, 1983
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Stromaté argenté, Palometa plateada, Palometa plateada, ... more

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Scombriformes (Mackerels) > Stromateidae (Butterfishes)
Etymology: Peprilus: Greek, peprilos, paprax, certain fish from Tracia.
More on author: Ayres.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; benthopelagic; depth range 9 - 91 m (Ref. 2850). Subtropical; 52°N - 23°N, 129°W - 109°W

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Northeast Pacific: Queen Charlotte Sound in British Columbia, Canada to southern Baja California Sur and the Gulf of California. Occurrence in Nicaragua needs verification.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 28.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 9346)

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Dorsal spines (total): 3; Dorsal soft rays (total): 45 - 47; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 39 - 44; Vertebrae: 29. Brilliantly iridescent, green or blue above, silvery below; dusky on fins (Ref. 6885).

Commonly found on sand bottom of exposed coasts. Usually occurs in shallow water near shore and often forms small, but fairly dense, schools (Ref. 4563).

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Eschmeyer, W.N., E.S. Herald and H. Hammann, 1983. A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America. Boston (MA, USA): Houghton Mifflin Company. xii+336 p. (Ref. 2850)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 02 May 2008

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Fisheries: commercial; gamefish: yes

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 8.3 - 21, mean 10.1 (based on 54 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5020 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01259 (0.00663 - 0.02390), b=3.11 (2.95 - 3.27), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 4.0 ±0.2 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Assuming tm=1).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (24 of 100).

Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649): Moderate to high vulnerability (50 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): High.

Peprilus simillimus (Ayres, 1860)