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Plagiogeneion rubiginosum (Hutton, 1875)

Rubyfish
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> Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Emmelichthyidae (Rovers)
Etymology: Plagiogeneion: Greek, plagios = oblique + Greek, geny, genyos, diminutive = face (Ref. 45335).

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

marino batidemersal; rango de profundidad 30 - 600 m (Ref. 106682). Deep-water; 22°S - 40°S, 14°E - 170°E

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Southeast Atlantic: Vema Seamount west of Cape Town and off Algoa Bay, and Walvis Bay in Namibia. Southern Indo-West Pacific: St. Paul and Amsterdam Islands, southern Australia, and New Zealand.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 60.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 5325); common length : 40.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 115123); edad máxima reportada: 10 años (Ref. 35378)

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Espinas dorsales (total) : 12; Radios blandos dorsales (total) : 10 - 12; Espinas anales: 3; Radios blandos anales: 10. Rosy pink in color, brownish dorsally, silvery below; fins red, tips of caudal fin blackish (Ref. 5325).

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Adults occur near sandy or muddy bottom in deep water. Feeds on larger zooplankton (Ref. 3394). Marketed fresh or frozen and proves to be an excellent foodfish (Ref. 115123).

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Main reference Upload your references | Referencias | Coordinador : Heemstra, Phillip C. | Colaboradores

Heemstra, P.C., 2016. Emmelichthyidae. pp. 2526-2533. In K.E. Carpenter and N. De Angelis (eds.). The living marine resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. Vol. 4: Bony fishes part 2 (Perciformes to Tetradontiformes) and sea turtles. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes, Rome, FAO. pp. 2343-3124. (Ref. 115123)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 28 June 2018

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Pesquerías: comercial
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 9 - 19.7, mean 14.2 °C (based on 63 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5313   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01047 (0.00491 - 0.02235), b=3.07 (2.87 - 3.27), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).
Nivel trófico (Ref. 69278):  3.4   ±0.45 se; based on food items.
Generation time: 3.7 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 1 growth studies.
Resiliencia (Ref. 120179):  Medio, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 1.4-4.4 años (tmax=10; K=0.33; tm=3-4).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate vulnerability (41 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   High.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 24 [15, 56] mg/100g; Iron = 0.518 [0.212, 0.995] mg/100g; Protein = 17.8 [16.8, 18.7] %; Omega3 = 0.365 [0.214, 0.620] g/100g; Selenium = 18.2 [8.0, 38.5] μg/100g; VitaminA = 11.7 [2.7, 51.2] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.367 [0.255, 0.547] mg/100g (wet weight);