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Menticirrhus saxatilis (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

Northern kingfish
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Classification / Names आम नाम | उपशब्द | Catalog of Fishes(वर्ग, प्रजाति) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Sciaenidae (Drums or croakers)
Etymology: Menticirrhus: Latin, mentum = beard, chin + Latin, cirrus = curly.
More on authors: Bloch & Schneider.

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

समुद्री; खारा ड़िमरसल; गहराई सीमा 10 - ? m. Subtropical; 43°N - 11°S

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Western Atlantic: Massachusetts to southern Florida in USA and Gulf of Mexico to Yucatan in Mexico.

Length at first maturity / आकार / वज़न / Age

Maturity: Lm 25.6  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 46.0 cm TL पुल्लिंग / अलिंग; (Ref. 7251); common length : 30.0 cm TL पुल्लिंग / अलिंग; (Ref. 3702); अधिकतम प्रकाशित वज़न: 1.1 kg (Ref. 40637); अधिकतम सूचित उम्र: 4 वर्षो (Ref. 127588)

जीवविज्ञान     शब्द संग्रह (उदाहरणार्थ epibenthic)

Adults occur usually in shallow coastal waters over sand to sandy mud bottoms. Common in the surf zone and in estuaries. Juveniles may enter tidal rivers and creeks of low salinity. Feed mainly on worms and crustaceans. An excellent food fish.

Life cycle and mating behavior परिपक्व अवधि | पुनरुत्पत्ति | मछलीऔ का अंडे देना | अंडे | Fecundity | लार्वा

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Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray, 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref. 7251)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 23 January 2020

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

मात्स्यिकी: लघु वाणिज्य; आखेट मत्स्य: हां
FAO - मात्स्यिकी: landings; Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Trophic ecology
खाद्य पदार्थ
संघटक आहार
आहार खपत
Food rations
परभक्षी
Population dynamics
Growth parameters
Max. ages / sizes
Length-weight rel.
Length-length rel.
Length-frequencies
Mass conversion
भर्ती
बहुतायत
Life cycle
पुनरुत्पत्ति
परिपक्व अवधि
Maturity/Gills rel.
Fecundity
मछलीऔ का अंडे देना
Spawning aggregations
अंडे
Egg development
लार्वा
लारवल गतिकी
Anatomy
गिल क्षेत्र
Brain
Otolith
Physiology
Body composition
Nutrients
Oxygen consumption
Swimming type
Swimming speed
Visual pigments
Fish sound
Diseases & Parasites
Toxicity (LC50s)
Genetics
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Heterozygosity
हैरेटिबिलटी
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 11.2 - 27.6, mean 24.2 °C (based on 232 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5020   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00794 (0.00515 - 0.01226), b=3.04 (2.92 - 3.16), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.6   ±0.5 se; based on diet studies.
Generation time: 2.0 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 2 growth studies.
लौटाव (Ref. 120179):  ऊंचा, न्यूनतम जनसंख्या दुगनी समय अवलागत 15 महीने। (K=0.5).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low to moderate vulnerability (26 of 100).
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649):  Moderate vulnerability (43 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Medium.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 98 [55, 187] mg/100g; Iron = 1.1 [0.6, 1.9] mg/100g; Protein = 21.4 [19.4, 23.7] %; Omega3 = 0.334 [0.195, 0.554] g/100g; Selenium = 21.8 [11.5, 42.6] μg/100g; VitaminA = 9.35 [3.35, 31.47] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.851 [0.609, 1.240] mg/100g (wet weight);