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Opsanus beta (Goode & Bean, 1880)

Gulf toadfish
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> Batrachoidiformes (Toadfishes) > Batrachoididae (Toadfishes) > Batrachoidinae
Etymology: beta: Named for its type locality, Brazil..
More on authors: Goode & Bean.

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

marina bottenlevande. Subtropical; 35°N - 15°N, 98°W - 74°W

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Western Atlantic: Florida (USA), Little Bahama Bank (Bahamas) and the entire Gulf of Mexico to Campeche, Mexico (Ref. 7251). Range extended to Brazil (Ref. 94035).

Length at first maturity / Size / Vikt / Age

Maturity: Lm 7.6, range 10 - ? cm
Max length : 33.0 cm TL hane/ej könsbestämd; (Ref. 85752)

Short description Bestämningsnycklar | Morfologi | Morfometri

Dark brown bars on caudal and pectoral fins; bars on pectoral fin irregularly joined (Ref. 26938).

Biologi     Ordlista (t.ex. epibenthic)

Commonly found in seagrass beds and rocky cuts in coastal bays and lagoons, and in shallows along open coast. In western coast of Florida, adults spawn in February and March (Ref. 26938). Nesting males produce grunt calls called the boatwhistle as advertisement of competition among males and to attract females (Ref. 45338). Neither opercular nor dorsal gland is venomous (Ref. 57406).

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Main reference Upload your references | referenser | Koordinator : Collette, Bruce B. | Medarbetare

Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray, 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref. 7251)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 23 November 2018

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Reports of ciguatera poisoning (Ref. 31174)





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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 23.3 - 27.9, mean 24.6 °C (based on 316 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5312   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01288 (0.00798 - 0.02079), b=3.06 (2.92 - 3.20), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).
Trofisk nivå (Ref. 69278):  3.7   ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Generation time: 5.0 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 1 growth studies.
Resiliens (Ref. 120179):  Mellan, lägsta populationsfördubblingstid 1,4-4,4 år (K=0.218; tm=1+).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate vulnerability (38 of 100).