Aphanopus carbo, Black scabbardfish : fisheries

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Aphanopus carbo Lowe, 1839

Black scabbardfish
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Common names from other countries

Sabre noir, Sable negro, 黑等鳍叉尾带鱼, ... more

Classification / Names Nomi Comuni | Sinonimi | Catalog of Fishes(Genere, Specie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Scombriformes (Mackerels) > Trichiuridae (Cutlassfishes) > Aphanopodinae
Etymology: Aphanopus: Greek, aphanes = hidden + Greek, pous = foot (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Lowe.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / distribuzione batimetrica / distribution range Ecologia

marino batipelagico; oceanodromo (Ref. 108735); distribuzione batimetrica 200 - 2300 m (Ref. 108733), usually 700 - 1300 m (Ref. 108735). Deep-water; 71°N - 23°S, 82°W - 17°E (Ref. 6181)

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North Atlantic: on both sides and at underwater rises from Denmark Strait to Cape Verde.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturità: Lm 111.6  range ? - 117.5 cm
Max length : 151 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 108708); common length : 70.0 cm SL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 3698); peso massimo pubblicato: 0.00 g

Short description Chiavi di identificazione | Morfologia | Morfometria

Spine dorsali (totale) : 34 - 41; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 52 - 56; Spine anali: 2; Raggi anali molli: 43 - 48; Vertebre: 97 - 100. Body is extremely elongated, with body depth 10.8 to 13.4 times in SL. The snout is large with strong fang-like teeth. Pelvic fins represented by a single spine in juveniles but entirely absent in adults. Color is coppery black with iridescent tint. The inside of the mouth and gill cavities black.
Body shape (shape guide): eel-like; Cross section: compressed.

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Juveniles mesopelagic (Ref. 6181). Bathypelagic (Ref. 58426). Migrate to midwater at night and feed on crustaceans, cephalopods and fishes (mostly macrourids, morids and alepocephalids). Mature at 80 to 85 cm. Eggs and larvae are pelagic (Ref. 6768). Data from study reveal mature individuals undertake horizontal migration to spawning and nursery grounds located off the Madeira and Canary islands (Ref. 108708). Commercial catch up to 1000 t was caught off Madeira with a specialized commercial deep water longline (Ref. 6255). Appear as bycatch in the trawl fishery west of the British Isles, along the Middle-Atlantic Ridge and at Corner Rise. Important and fabled food fish in Madeira (Ref. 4537). Some specimens reach 145 cm (Nuno Marques, Nomad@netmadeira.com, 12/09).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

Displays determinate fecundity (Ref. 108695). Mature individuals undertake horizontal migration to spawning and nursery grounds (Ref. 108708). Suspended pre-spawning stages occurred in some areas of the Northeast Atlantic caused by atresia in ovaries (Ref. 108708).

Main reference Upload your references | Bibliografia | Coordinatore : Parin, Nikolay V. | Collaboratori

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)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 12 October 2018

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Pesca: elevato interesse commerciale
FAO - pesca: landings, species profile; Publication: search | FIRMS - Stock assessments | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Fonte Biblio. 123201): 1.1 - 12.6, mean 7.1 °C (based on 244 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Fonte Biblio. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5078   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00046 (0.00033 - 0.00063), b=3.15 (3.06 - 3.24), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Fonte Biblio. 69278):  4.5   ±0.77 se; based on food items.
Resilienza (Fonte Biblio. 120179):  Medio, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 1.4 - 4.4 anni (K=0.11-0.25, tmax=14?; tm=3).
Prior r = 0.20, 95% CL = 0.13 - 0.30, Based on 3 full stock assessments.
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  High vulnerability (64 of 100). 🛈
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649):  Moderate vulnerability (44 of 100). 🛈
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Low.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 11.6 [6.0, 18.7] mg/100g; Iron = 0.192 [0.097, 0.400] mg/100g; Protein = 17.4 [16.1, 18.7] %; Omega3 = 0.161 [0.071, 0.370] g/100g; Selenium = 34.7 [15.7, 77.9] μg/100g; VitaminA = 15.8 [1.6, 130.4] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.391 [0.267, 0.539] mg/100g (wet weight); based on nutrient studies.