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Macrouridae (Grenadiers or rattails)
Etymology: Mataeocephalus: Greek, maa, mataio = silliness + Greek,kepahle = head (Ref. 45335); kotlyari: Named for Alexander Kotlyar of P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Eponymy: Dr Alexander Nikolaevich Kotlyar (d: 1950) is a biologist and ichthyologist who was an associate curator of ichthyology at the Zoological Museum of Moscow University in the 1990s and is now Chief Scientist, Laboratory of Oceanic Ichthyofauna, P. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on authors: Sazonov, Shcherbachev & Iwamoto.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / distribuzione batimetrica / distribution range
Ecologia
marino benthopelagico; distribuzione batimetrica 412 - 1000 m (Ref. 75667), usually 700 - 900 m (Ref. 75667). Subtropical
Southwestern Pacific: Australia, and Chesterfield and Bellona Plateau.
Size / Peso / Age
Maturità: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 22.5 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 75667)
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve
Sazonov, Y.I., Y.N. Shcherbachev and T. Iwamoto, 2003. The grenadier genus Mataeocephalus Berg, 1898 (Teleostei, Gadiformes, Macrouridae), with descriptions of two new species. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., v. 54 (no. 17):279-301. (Ref. 75667)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
Threat to humans
Harmless
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Fonte Biblio.
123201): 2.2 - 7.8, mean 5.6 °C (based on 208 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Fonte Biblio.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5156 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00575 (0.00194 - 0.01707), b=3.08 (2.83 - 3.33), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Fonte Biblio.
69278): 3.4 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilienza (Fonte Biblio.
120179): Medio, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 1.4 - 4.4 anni (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (13 of 100).
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