Chirolophis ascanii, Yarrell's blenny

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Chirolophis ascanii (Walbaum, 1792)

Yarrell's blenny
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Perciformes/Zoarcoidei (Eelpouts and pricklebacks) > Stichaeidae (Pricklebacks) > Chirolophinae
Etymology: Chirolophis: Greek, cheir = hand + Greek, lophos = crest (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Walbaum.

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

Marine; benthopelagic; depth range 10 - 400 m (Ref. 58426), usually 10 - 30 m (Ref. 35388). Temperate; 72°N - 49°N, 70°W - 32°E

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Northeast Atlantic: Norwegian coast to Finmarken and Waranger Fjord, occasionally Murman coast, rare in Skagerrak, Kattegat and Öresund, around Helgoland, also British Isles; also the Orkneys, Faroes, Shetlands and Iceland (Ref. 4782). Northwest Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 7251).

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 25.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 4782); 18.0 cm TL (female); common length : 17.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 4782)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 50 - 54; Dorsal soft rays (total): 0; Anal soft rays: 35 - 40. Snout blunt; mouth frog-like. With a large fringed tentacle above each eye, a smaller one in front and others on top of head and on the anterior dorsal fin spines. First anal fin ray a short flexible spine. Lateral line represented by a dorsal and a mediolateral branch of neuromasts (the former begins as a short canal, with 4-5 pores.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Usually over rocks and among seaweeds, never in intertidal zone, at 20 m, but descends from 100-280 m (Ref. 4782). Benthic (Ref. 58426). Feeds on bottom invertebrates (small mollusks, polychaetes, hydroids, sponges), also algae (Ref. 4782). Spawns in October - December (Ref. 35388).

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Fry pelagic (Ref. 4782).

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Makushok, V.M., 1986. Stichaeidae. p. 1122-1123. 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. 3. (Ref. 4782)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)


CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Fisheries: of no interest
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 6.7 - 12, mean 10.1 °C (based on 278 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5039   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00372 (0.00147 - 0.00941), b=3.17 (2.95 - 3.39), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.2   ±0.36 se; based on food items.
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (21 of 100).
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 35.6 [18.1, 64.6] mg/100g; Iron = 0.259 [0.148, 0.482] mg/100g; Protein = 17 [16, 18] %; Omega3 = 0.43 [0.21, 0.85] g/100g; Selenium = 17.5 [7.4, 39.2] μg/100g; VitaminA = 34.8 [8.0, 146.6] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.816 [0.551, 1.189] mg/100g (wet weight);