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Lonchopisthus higmani Mead, 1959

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> Ovalentaria/misc (Various families in series Ovalentaria) > Opistognathidae (Jawfishes)
Etymology: Lonchopisthus: Greek, logche = lance + Greek, opisthe = behind (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: James Booth Higman (1922–2009) was an American fisheries biologist. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.

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

marino demersal; rango de profundidad ? - 100 m (Ref. 13628), usually 40 - 70 m (Ref. 13628). Tropical

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Western Atlantic: Venezuela (including Gulf of Venezuela) and Suriname.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 13.5 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 13628)

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Espinas dorsales (total) : 11; Radios blandos dorsales (total) : 17 - 18; Espinas anales: 3; Radios blandos anales: 17.

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Found on muddy bottoms. Feed on small decapods, shrimps and fishes. Mouthbrooders (Ref. 240).

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

Employ mouthbrooding to care for their young (Ref. 240).

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Cervigón, F., 1994. Los peces marinos de Venezuela. Volume 3. Fundación Científica Los Roques, Caracas,Venezuela. 295 p. (Ref. 13628)

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

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 23 August 2012

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5312   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00389 (0.00180 - 0.00842), b=3.12 (2.94 - 3.30), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).
Nivel trófico (Ref. 69278):  3.9   ±0.63 se; based on food items.
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).