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Trachipterus trachypterus (Gmelin, 1789)

Mediterranean dealfish
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> Lampriformes (Velifers, tube-eyes and ribbonfishes) > Trachipteridae (Ribbonfishes)
Etymology: Trachipterus: Greek, trachys, -eia, -ys = rough + Greek, pteron = wing, fin (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Gmelin.

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

marino batipelagico; distribuzione batimetrica 100 - 600 m (Ref. 50610). Deep-water; 45°N - 48°S, 76°W - 153°W

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Eastern Atlantic: western Mediterranean and from Morocco to Namibia; also off Table Bay, South Africa (Ref. 2713). Western Pacific: Japan and New Zealand. Southeast Pacific: Chile (Ref. 27363).

Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 300 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 4506)

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Spine dorsali (totale) : 0; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 145 - 184. Silvery in color except for front of head, interorbital area, dorsal part of upper jaw, and tip of lower jaw which are black (Ref. 2713). Dusky blotch usually seen on body at bases of 20-28th dorsal rays (Ref. 2713).

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

A rare (Ref. 2713), mesopelagic species. Feeds on squid and midwater fishes (Ref. 6392). Swims with head up (Ref. 36731). Eggs and larvae are found frequently near the surface (Ref. 6392).

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Aguiar, A. and J.-C. Quéro, 1990. Trachipteridae. p. 647-649. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 4506)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 07 May 2013

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Pesca: scarso interesse commerciale
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 8.9 - 20.5, mean 13.5 °C (based on 543 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5166   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00102 (0.00046 - 0.00225), b=3.06 (2.88 - 3.24), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  2.9   ±0.25 se; based on food items.
Resilienza (Ref. 120179):  Basso, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 4.5 - 14 anni (Assuming tmax>10).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Very high vulnerability (90 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   High.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 11.6 [3.8, 26.9] mg/100g; Iron = 0.272 [0.114, 0.791] mg/100g; Protein = 18.6 [15.8, 22.2] %; Omega3 = 0.0923 [, ] g/100g; Selenium = 28.5 [9.3, 89.1] μg/100g; VitaminA = 10.4 [1.3, 86.5] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.394 [0.206, 0.824] mg/100g (wet weight);