Pentaceros richardsoni, Pelagic armourhead : fisheries

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Pentaceros richardsoni Smith, 1844

Pelagic armourhead
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South Africa country information

Common names: Pelagic armourhead, Pelagiese pantserkop
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Ranges from Natal to Cape Town. Also Ref. 6885.
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/sf.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Heemstra, P.C., 1986
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Tête casquée pélagique, Рыба-кабан, Pelagic armorhead, ... more

Classification / Names Nombres comunes | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Especie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Acropomatiformes (Oceanic basses) > Pentacerotidae (Armorheads) > Pentacerotinae
Etymology: Pentaceros: Greek, pente = five + Greek, keras = horn (Ref. 45335); richardsoni: Named after John Richardson, naturalist and explorer (Ref. 6885).
Eponymy: Sir John Richardson (1787–1865) was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / rango de profundidad / distribution range Ecología

marino pelagic-oceanic; rango de profundidad 0 - 1000 m (Ref. 75886). Temperate; 23°S - 56°S, 68°W - 174°W

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Southeast Atlantic: Tristan de Cunha and South Africa. Western Indian Ocean: South Africa. South Pacific: southern Australia and New Zealand and Cape Horn, Chile. North Pacific records refers to pectoralis (Ref. 4537).

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 56.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 5449); edad máxima reportada: 60 años (Ref. 127621)

Short description Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría

Espinas dorsales (total) : 14 - 15; Radios blandos dorsales (total) : 8 - 10; Espinas anales: 4 - 5; Radios blandos anales: 7 - 8. Head and body bluish above, pale below.
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal.

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Have been trawled on the continental shelf and slope; juveniles recorded from surface waters (Ref. 9563). Depth range reported at 0m-600m in Ref. 5449.

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

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Heemstra, P.C., 1986. Pentacerotidae. p. 622-623. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (Ref. 5449)

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

Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Pesquerías: comercial
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Preferred temperature (Referencia 123201): 6.8 - 16.7, mean 11.6 °C (based on 217 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Referencia 82804):  PD50 = 0.5157   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01122 (0.00514 - 0.02450), b=3.04 (2.87 - 3.21), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278):  3.5   ±0.37 se; based on food items.
Resiliencia (Referencia 120179):  Muy bajo, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo superior a 14 años (K=0.2-0.6; tmax=60; Assuming tm=4).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate vulnerability (35 of 100). 🛈
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649):  High to very high vulnerability (66 of 100). 🛈
Price category (Ref. 80766):   High.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 30 [17, 50] mg/100g; Iron = 0.404 [0.230, 0.657] mg/100g; Protein = 18.9 [17.8, 19.9] %; Omega3 = 0.81 [0.50, 1.33] g/100g; Selenium = 17.1 [8.9, 34.6] μg/100g; VitaminA = 12 [4, 39] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.525 [0.368, 0.762] mg/100g (wet weight);