Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
marino demersale. Tropical; 25°S - 26°S
Eastern Indian Ocean: known only from Shark Bay, Western Australia.
Size / Peso / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Ventral surface of lower jaw covered with numerous prickles or papillose villi and with cirri on both inner and outer margins. Isthmus with fleshy pad, its width about 1/4-1/3 of its length (Ref. 39602).
Found inshore, in soft bottom.
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturities | Riproduzione | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larve
Paxton, J.R., D.F. Hoese, G.R. Allen and J.E. Hanley, 1989. Pisces. Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 7. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 665 p. (Ref. 7300)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Strumenti
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Ref.
123201): 23.1 - 23.8, mean 23.5 °C (based on 8 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5078 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00389 (0.00180 - 0.00842), b=3.12 (2.94 - 3.30), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.4 ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
