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Stephanolepis hispida (Linnaeus, 1766)

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

> Tetraodontiformes (Puffers and filefishes) > Monacanthidae (Filefishes)
Etymology: Stephanolepis: Greek, stephanos = crown + Greek, lepis = scale (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Linnaeus.

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

marino associati a barriera corallina; distribuzione batimetrica 0 - 293 m (Ref. 5951). Subtropical; 46°N - 37°S, 98°W - 14°E

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Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada south along the U.S., Bermuda, the Bahamas, throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, and along South America to Uruguay (Ref. 114078). Eastern Atlantic: Canary Islands, Morocco to Angola (Ref. 109259) including Madeira (Ref. 3592).

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm 13.9, range 11 - ? cm
Max length : 36.9 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 124459); peso massimo pubblicato: 364.20 g (Ref. 124459)

Short description Chiavi di identificazione | Morfologia | Morfometria

Spine dorsali (totale) : 2; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 29 - 35; Spine anali: 0; Raggi anali molli: 30 - 35.

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Found on sand or mud bottoms. Associated with Sargassum (Ref. 26340). Adults feed on benthic invertebrates (Ref. 5377). Edible but generally rejected by fishers (Ref. 5377).

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Main reference Upload your references | Bibliografia | Coordinatore : Hutchins, Barry | Collaboratori

Harmelin-Vivien, M.L. and J.-C. Quéro, 1990. Monacanthidae. p. 1061-1066. 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. 3592)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 27 February 2014

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Reports of ciguatera poisoning (Ref. 30911)





Human uses

Pesca: pesca di sussistenza; Acquario: Commerciale
FAO - Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Fonti Internet

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 10.2 - 27, mean 21.1 °C (based on 480 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5312   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01738 (0.01459 - 0.02069), b=2.91 (2.86 - 2.96), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  2.6   ±0.1 se; based on diet studies.
Resilienza (Ref. 120179):  Alto, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione meno di 15 mesi (K=0.37;).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low to moderate vulnerability (31 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Unknown.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 26.7 [10.6, 86.6] mg/100g; Iron = 0.652 [0.305, 1.653] mg/100g; Protein = 18.5 [16.2, 20.8] %; Omega3 = 0.181 [0.082, 0.373] g/100g; Selenium = 23.7 [10.1, 58.9] μg/100g; VitaminA = 31 [7, 140] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.845 [0.516, 1.429] mg/100g (wet weight);