Capros aper, Boarfish

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Capros aper (Linnaeus, 1758)

Boarfish
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Classification / Names Nombres comunes | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Especie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Acanthuriformes (Surgeonfishes) > Caproidae (Boarfishes)
Etymology: Capros: Latin, capra = goat, wild board (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Linnaeus.

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

marino demersal; rango de profundidad 40 - 700 m (Ref. 56504). Subtropical; 62°N - 10°N, 18°W - 36°E

Distribución Países | Áreas FAO | Ecosistemas | Ocurrencias, apariciones | Point map | Introducciones | Faunafri

Eastern Atlantic: western Norway, Skagerrak, Shetlands and western Scotland to Senegal. Also in the Mediterranean (mainly western part).

Length at first maturity / Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm 8.2  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 30.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 5377); common length : 13.0 cm SL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 4952)

Short description Morfología | Morfometría

Espinas dorsales (total): 9 - 10; Radios blandos dorsales (total): 23-25; Espinas anales 3; Radios blandos anales: 22 - 24. Eye large; snout as long as eye or longer. Mouth very protractile, forming a short tube when protruded. Third dorsal and anal spines only a little longer and stronger than the others. Body depth more than one and a half times in standard length. Vertebrae 21-23.

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Depth range from 40-600 m (Ref. 35388) and from 288-700 m in the eastern Ionian Sea (Ref. 56504). Gregarious. Form schools. Found over rock or coral, but also trawled over sandy ground. Feed on crustaceans or worms, mollusks (Ref. 4952). Males are smaller than females (Ref. 5377).

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

Main reference Upload your references | Referencias | Coordinador : Parin, Nikolay V. | Colaboradores

Quéro, J.-C., 1986. Caproidae. p. 777-779. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 4952)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 15 July 2014

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Pesquerías: sin interés
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Fuentes de Internet

AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | BOLDSystems | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: Género, Especie | DiscoverLife | DORIS | ECOTOX | FAO - pesquerías: landings; Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GenBank: genome, nucleotide | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | MitoFish | Bases de datos nacionales | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | Acuarios públicos | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | Árbol de la vida | Wikipedia: Go, búsqueda | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Expediente Zoológico

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 6.9 - 15, mean 10.7 °C (based on 295 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 1.0000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01905 (0.01455 - 0.02496), b=2.81 (2.73 - 2.89), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245).
Nivel trófico (Ref. 69278):  3.1   ±0.3 se; based on diet studies.
Resiliencia (Ref. 120179):  Bajo, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 4.5-14 años (K=0.145; tmax=26; tm=1.84).
Prior r = 0.44, 95% CL = 0.29 - 0.69, Based on 1 stock assessment.
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low to moderate vulnerability (30 of 100).
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649):  Low vulnerability (19 of 100).
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 74.7 [37.7, 139.1] mg/100g; Iron = 1.11 [0.56, 2.07] mg/100g; Protein = 17.9 [16.7, 19.0] %; Omega3 = 0.313 [0.180, 0.549] g/100g; Selenium = 37 [16, 86] μg/100g; VitaminA = 18.1 [4.5, 77.6] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.767 [0.502, 1.164] mg/100g (wet weight);