Taurulus bubalis, Longspined bullhead : aquarium

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Taurulus bubalis (Euphrasen, 1786)

Longspined bullhead
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> Perciformes/Cottoidei (Sculpins) > Cottidae (Sculpins)
Etymology: Taurulus: Greek, tauros = bull, diminutive (Ref. 45335).

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

marino; salobre demersal; no migratorio; rango de profundidad 0 - 200 m (Ref. 58496). Temperate; 72°N - 35°N, 24°W - 33°E

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Eastern Atlantic: Iceland, the Shetlands, from Murmansk southward to Portugal, also Baltic Sea northward to Gulf of Finland and northern Mediterranean coasts eastward to Gulf of Genoa.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 17.5 cm SL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 3397); 25.0 cm SL (female); common length : 12.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 3397)

Short description Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría

Longest spine on the front gill cover reaches backwards to a point below the foremost part of the dorsal fin. Gill membranes joined to the throat, no bony knobs above or under the rough lateral line (Ref. 35388).
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal.

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Facultative air-breathing (Ref. 126274); A resident intertidal species with homing behavior (Ref. 32612). Inhabits tide pools and inshore waters on rocky bottoms or among algae at 0-30 m. Can leave tide pools when conditions become inhospitable (Ref. 31184). Feeds on mysids, amphipods (gammarids), decapods, polychaetes, mollusks, ophiuroids and fishes. Breathes air when out of water (Ref. 31184). Information on maximum length for male taken from Ref. 4698.

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

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Fedorov, V.V., 1986. Cottidae. p. 1243-1260. 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. 3. (Ref. 4698)

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

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 17 October 2013

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Pesquerías: sin interés; Acuario: Acuarios públicos
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Referencia 123201): 7 - 11.9, mean 9.5 °C (based on 421 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Referencia 82804):  PD50 = 1.0000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00794 (0.00386 - 0.01635), b=3.12 (2.95 - 3.29), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278):  3.6   ±0.52 se; based on food items.
Generation time: 5.3 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 2 growth studies.
Resiliencia (Referencia 120179):  Medio, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 1.4-4.4 años (K=0.21-.025).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate vulnerability (38 of 100). 🛈
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 75.1 [30.9, 174.5] mg/100g; Iron = 0.399 [0.190, 0.842] mg/100g; Protein = 18.1 [15.9, 20.1] %; Omega3 = 1.18 [0.50, 3.33] g/100g; Selenium = 11.2 [5.3, 26.1] μg/100g; VitaminA = 26.9 [9.5, 74.9] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.854 [0.567, 1.511] mg/100g (wet weight);