Mauritania country information

Common names: Ngor sikim, Rouget du Sénégal, Salmonete
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: abundant (always seen in some numbers) | Ref:
Importance: commercial | Ref: Mohamed Fall, K.O., 2005
Aquaculture: | Ref:
Regulations: | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: It is particularly abundant over muddy bottms of the southern coast of Mauritania, where it is exploited by trawlers from Dakar (Ref. 5377). Also Ref. 4537.
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/mr.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Maigret, J. and B. Ly, 1986
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Rouget du Sénégal, Salmonete barbudo, Султанка западноафриканская, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Mulliformes (Goatfishes) > Mullidae (Goatfishes)
Etymology: Pseudupeneus: Greek, pseudes = false + Peneus, the name of a river.
More on author: Cuvier.

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

Marine; demersal; depth range 10 - 300 m (Ref. 4845), usually 20 - 75 m (Ref. 27000). Tropical; 35°N - 17°S

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Western Mediterranean Sea, eastern Atlantic: Morocco to Angola, including offshore islands.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ?, range 13 - ? cm
Max length : 55.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 4845); common length : 35.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 4845)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 7

Inhabits the coastal waters of the continental shelf, over sandy and muddy bottoms (Ref. 2683). Feeds on benthic invertebrates (Ref. 4845).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Randall, John E. | Collaborators

Ben-Tuvia, A., 1990. Mullidae. p. 827-829. 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. 7313)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Vulnerable (VU) (A2ad); Date assessed: 13 May 2013

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 18.1 - 27.9, mean 25.2 (based on 104 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.6250 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01047 (0.00635 - 0.01728), b=3.08 (2.94 - 3.22), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.2 ±0.41 se; based on food items.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.5; tm=1).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low to moderate vulnerability (30 of 100).

Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649): High to very high vulnerability (75 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): High.

Pseudupeneus prayensis (Cuvier, 1829)