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Spicara melanurus (Valenciennes, 1830)

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> Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Sparidae (Porgies)
Etymology: Spicara: Latin, spicare = furnished with spike (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Valenciennes.

Issue
Placement in Sparidae from Centracanthidae from Santini et al. (2014:Ref. 95347). Suggestion already made in Garrido-Ramos et al. 1995; Hanel & Sturmbauer 2000; Summerer et al. 2001; Orrell et al. 2002; Orrell & Carpenter 2004; Chiba et al. 2009; Hanel & Tsigenopoulos 2011.

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

marina; djupintervall 100 - 250 m (Ref. 104863), usually 100 - 250 m (Ref. 27000). Tropical; 18°N - 18°S, 26°W - 14°E

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Eastern Atlantic: Cape Verde and off Senegal. Possibly occurs as far south as Angola, but records south of Senegal need to be verified.

Size / Vikt / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 32.8 cm TL hane/ej könsbestämd; (Ref. 111105); common length : 25.0 cm TL hane/ej könsbestämd; (Ref. 5476)

Biologi     Ordlista (t.ex. epibenthic)

Neritic over the continental shelf. (Ref. 3594).

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Heemstra, P.C., 1990. Centracanthidae. p. 768-772. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 7349)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 30 March 2011

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Fiskeri: kommersiell
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 12.4 - 15.8, mean 14.3 °C (based on 19 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5039   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01380 (0.00803 - 0.02372), b=3.02 (2.87 - 3.17), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).
Trofisk nivå (Ref. 69278):  3.5   ±0.50 se; based on food items.
Resiliens (Ref. 120179):  Mellan, lägsta populationsfördubblingstid 1,4-4,4 år (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (23 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Medium.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 141 [68, 254] mg/100g; Iron = 0.556 [0.180, 2.990] mg/100g; Protein = 19.1 [17.0, 21.1] %; Omega3 = 0.444 [0.200, 1.019] g/100g; Selenium = 47.2 [22.9, 95.7] μg/100g; VitaminA = 26.9 [8.5, 79.3] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.614 [0.222, 2.286] mg/100g (wet weight);