Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; demersal. Tropical
Eastern Indian Ocean: Indonesia and northwestern Australia (Ref. 5978). Also known from Papua New Guinea (Ref. 6192).
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 16.5 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 3131)
Dorsal spines (total): 4 - 5; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13 - 14; Anal soft rays: 12 - 15. A short black cirrus on eye. Respiratory valve inside lower jaw with a thread-like, pale appendage. Body without distinctive colour marks. Upper edge of opercle descending backward. Both nasal valves long and tubular. First dorsal fin with 4 (rarely 3) spines. Two basipterygial processes (Ref 42788)..
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Sainsbury, K.J., P.J. Kailola and G.G. Leyland, 1985. Continental shelf fishes of the northern and north-western Australia. An illustrated guide. CSIRO Division of Fisheries Research; Clouston & Hall and Peter Pownall Fisheries Information Service, Canberra, Australia. 375 p. (Ref. 3131)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: bycatch
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Ref.
123201): 19.1 - 28.2, mean 25.9 °C (based on 791 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00794 (0.00322 - 0.01959), b=3.09 (2.89 - 3.29), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.9 ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref.
120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
