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Saloptia powelli Smith, 1964

Golden grouper
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> Perciformes/Serranoidei (Groupers) > Epinephelidae (Groupers)
Eponymy: Ronald Powell was a Fisheries Officer, Cook Islands, and later of the South Pacific Commission. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on author: Smith.

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Type locality: Cook Islands.

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

marino associati a barriera corallina; distribuzione batimetrica 140 - 367 m (Ref. 4787). Deep-water; 29°N - 23°S, 111°E - 140°W (Ref. 5222)

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Pacific Ocean: western Pacific to French Polynesia. Reported as Epinephelus truncatus from French Polynesia by Bagnis et al. (1972, Ref. 4821).

Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 39.0 cm SL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 5222)

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Spine dorsali (totale) : 8; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 11; Spine anali: 3; Raggi anali molli: 8.

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Inhabits deep waters on rocky substrata. One of the most common deepwater groupers caught with handlines at the Marianas.

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Heemstra, P.C. and J.E. Randall, 1993. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 16. Groupers of the world (family Serranidae, subfamily Epinephelinae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the grouper, rockcod, hind, coral grouper and lyretail species known to date. Rome: FAO. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(16):382 p. (Ref. 5222)

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

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 22 November 2016

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Pesca: elevato interesse commerciale; Pesce da pesca sportiva: si
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 13.2 - 21.4, mean 15.9 °C (based on 69 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 1.0000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01148 (0.00668 - 0.01973), b=3.06 (2.92 - 3.20), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.9   ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilienza (Ref. 120179):  Medio, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 1.4 - 4.4 anni (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate vulnerability (38 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Very high.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 8.69 [4.02, 20.19] mg/100g; Iron = 0.21 [0.10, 0.47] mg/100g; Protein = 18.1 [16.3, 19.8] %; Omega3 = 0.258 [0.135, 0.496] g/100g; Selenium = 9.32 [3.59, 23.19] μg/100g; VitaminA = 55.9 [9.8, 307.7] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.408 [0.247, 0.641] mg/100g (wet weight);