Capros aper, Boarfish

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Capros aper (Linnaeus, 1758)

Boarfish
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United Kingdom country information

Common names: Boarfish, Boar-fish
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Quéro, J.-C., 1986
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> Acanthuriformes (Surgeonfishes) > Caproidae (Boarfishes)
Etymology: Capros: Latin, capra = goat, wild board (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Linnaeus.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / Tiefenbereich / distribution range Ökologie

seewasser demersal; tiefenbereich 40 - 700 m (Ref. 56504). Subtropical; 62°N - 10°N, 18°W - 36°E

Verbreitung Länder | FAO Gebiete | Ecosystems | Vorkommen | Punkt Karte | Einführungen | Faunafri

Eastern Atlantic: western Norway, Skagerrak, Shetlands and western Scotland to Senegal. Also in the Mediterranean (mainly western part).

Length at first maturity / Size / Gewicht / Alter

Geschlechtsreife: Lm 8.2  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 30.0 cm TL Männchen/unbestimmt; (Ref. 5377); common length : 13.0 cm SL Männchen/unbestimmt; (Ref. 4952)

Kurzbeschreibung Bestimmungsschlüssel | Morphologie | Morphometrie

Rückenflossenstacheln (insgesamt) : 9 - 10; Rückenflossenweichstrahlen (insgesamt) : 23 - 25; Afterflossenstacheln: 3; Afterflossenweichstrahlen: 22 - 24. Eye large; snout as long as eye or longer. Mouth very protractile, forming a short tube when protruded. Third dorsal and anal spines only a little longer and stronger than the others. Body depth more than one and a half times in standard length. Vertebrae 21-23.
Body shape (shape guide): short and / or deep.

Biologie     Fachlexikon (Englisch) (z.B. epibenthic)

Depth range from 40-600 m (Ref. 35388) and from 288-700 m in the eastern Ionian Sea (Ref. 56504). Gregarious. Form schools. Found over rock or coral, but also trawled over sandy ground. Feed on crustaceans or worms, mollusks (Ref. 4952). Males are smaller than females (Ref. 5377).

Life cycle and mating behavior Geschlechtsreife | Fortpflanzung | Ablaichen | Eier | Fecundity | Larven

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Quéro, J.-C., 1986. Caproidae. p. 777-779. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 4952)

IUCN Rote Liste Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  nicht bedroht (LC) ; Date assessed: 15 July 2014

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Bedrohung für Menschen

  Harmless





Nutzung durch Menschen

Fischereien: nicht kommerziell
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 6.9 - 15, mean 10.7 °C (based on 295 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 1.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01905 (0.01469 - 0.02472), b=2.82 (2.74 - 2.90), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.1   ±0.3 se; based on diet studies.
Widerstandsfähigkeit (Ref. 120179):  niedrig, Verdopplung der Population dauert 4,5 - 14 Jahre. (K=0.145; tmax=26; tm=1.84).
Prior r = 0.44, 95% CL = 0.29 - 0.67, Based on 1 full stock assessment.
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (20 of 100). 🛈
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649):  Low vulnerability (19 of 100). 🛈
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 74.7 [37.7, 139.1] mg/100g; Iron = 1.11 [0.56, 2.07] mg/100g; Protein = 17.9 [16.7, 19.0] %; Omega3 = 0.313 [0.180, 0.549] g/100g; Selenium = 37 [16, 86] μg/100g; VitaminA = 18.1 [4.5, 77.6] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.767 [0.502, 1.164] mg/100g (wet weight);