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Teleostei (teleosts) > Pleuronectiformes (Flatfishes) > Pleuronectidae (Righteye flounders) > Atheresthinae
Etymology: Atheresthes: Greek, atheres = spike + The name of Astyanax, Hector´s son in the Greek mithology (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Dr Barton Warren Evermann (1853–1932) was a schoolteacher (1876–1886) and a student at Indiana University, where he was awarded his bachelor’s degree (1886), master’s (1888) and doctorate (1891). [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on authors: Jordan & Starks.

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

Marine; demersal; depth range 20 - 1200 m (Ref. 50550). Temperate; 66°N - 35°N, 130°E - 153°W (Ref. 6793)

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North Pacific: Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk north to the Anadyr Gulf, through the eastern Bering Sea to the Aleutian Islands and the Shelikof Strait in Alaska.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 100.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 559); common length : 54.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 56527); max. published weight: 8.5 kg (Ref. 56527); max. reported age: 33 years (Ref. 55701)

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Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 98 - 116; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 76 - 94. Mouth very large; gill rakers slender; caudal fin strong and lunate (Ref. 559).

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Vinnikov, K.A., R.C. Thomson and T.A. Munroe, 2018. Revised classification of the righteye flounders (Teleostei: Pleuronectidae) based on multilocus phylogeny with complete taxon sampling. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 125:147-162. (Ref. 122998)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 05 November 2020

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Fisheries: commercial

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 0.7 - 5.4, mean 1.7 °C (based on 287 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.7500 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00759 (0.00559 - 0.01030), b=3.03 (2.94 - 3.12), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 4.3 ±0.2 se; based on diet studies.

Generation time: 13.7 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 2 growth studies.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (Assuming tm>4; tmax=33).

Prior r = 0.18, 95% CL = 0.12 - 0.27, Based on 2 full stock assessments.

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): High vulnerability (64 of 100).

Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649): Moderate vulnerability (44 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): High.

Nutrients (Ref. 124155): Calcium = 20.2 [8.0, 35.3] mg/100g; Iron = 0.244 [0.123, 0.466] mg/100g; Protein = 17.2 [15.9, 18.6] %; Omega3 = 0.375 [0.180, 0.771] g/100g; Selenium = 26.7 [13.1, 59.3] μg/100g; VitaminA = 10.3 [2.3, 45.7] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.281 [0.186, 0.427] mg/100g (wet weight);

Atheresthes evermanni Jordan & Starks, 1904