IUCN Red List Assessment

Red List Category
LC
Least Concern

Red List Criteria

Version

3.1

Year Assessed

2010

Assessor/s

Munroe, T., Nielsen, J.G. & Tyler, J.

Reviewer/s

Carpenter, K., Polidoro, B. & Livingstone, S. (Global Marine Species Assessment Team)

Contributor/s

Conservation status

IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed

CITES: Not listed

Reproduction

Egg Type: Pelagic, Pelagic larva

Feeding

Feeding Group: Carnivore

Diet: mobile benthic worms, mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs), mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves

Non-Migrant: No. All populations of this species make significant seasonal migrations.

Locally Migrant: No. No populations of this species make local extended movements (generally less than 200 km) at particular times of the year (e.g., to breeding or wintering grounds, to hibernation sites).

Locally Migrant: No. No populations of this species make annual migrations of over 200 km.

Depth range based on 11 specimens in 1 taxon.
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 1 sample.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 2 - 95
  Temperature range (°C): 8.291 - 8.291
  Nitrate (umol/L): 23.764 - 23.764
  Salinity (PPS): 33.431 - 33.431
  Oxygen (ml/l): 3.698 - 3.698
  Phosphate (umol/l): 1.945 - 1.945
  Silicate (umol/l): 31.690 - 31.690

Graphical representation

Environment

demersal; marine; depth range 2 - 201 m (Ref. 2850), usually 30 - 80 m (Ref. 9294)

Depth: 2 - 201m.
From 2 to 201 meters.

Habitat: demersal.

Habitat Type: Marine

Habitat and Ecology

Habitat and Ecology

This fish is found over soft substrata in deep coastal areas, as well as in shallower areas in estuaries and mangroves. It feeds on mobile invertebrates and has pelagic eggs and larvae (Galvan-Magana et al. 2000). This species is found from 3-305m.

Systems

  • Marine

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