Nezumia sclerorhynchus, Roughtip grenadier : fisheries

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Nezumia sclerorhynchus (Valenciennes, 1838)

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

Teleostei (teleosts) > Gadiformes (Cods) > Macrouridae (Grenadiers or rattails)
Etymology: Nezumia: A Japanese word that means "mouse" .
More on author: Valenciennes.

Issue
This species is often confused with Nezumia aequalis (Günther, 1878).

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

Marine; bathypelagic; non-migratory; depth range 130 - 3200 m (Ref. 3587), usually 450 - 730 m (Ref. 1371). Deep-water; 43°N - 4°N, 81°W - 36°E

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Atlantic Ocean: North Atlantic south to the northern part of the Gulf of Guinea in the east, into the Mediterranean Sea, and north of Straits of Florida in the west.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm 15.0, range 13 - 17 cm
Max length : 36.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 3587)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 2; Anal spines: 0. Snout short, bluntly acute; terminal scute broad, blunt; ventral surface of snout without scales posteriorly including most of suborbital, mandible mostly naked, pores prominent on head. Pyloric caeca 22 to 29. Body scales with slender, conical, slanting spinules arranged in converging rows. Color in alcohol brownish, paler on head, with violet tinge on abdomen, some silvery reflections; fins pale to blackish; first dorsal fin uniformly blackish; mouth and gill cavity mostly black.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Most numerous at 450 to 730 m in the open Atlantic and at 500 to 800 m in the Mediterranean. Feeds on small crustaceans (copepods, amphipods, decapods, mysids, etc.) and polychaetes (Ref. 1371)

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

Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Iwamoto, Tomio | Collaborators

Cohen, D.M., T. Inada, T. Iwamoto and N. Scialabba, 1990. FAO species catalogue. Vol. 10. Gadiform fishes of the world (Order Gadiformes). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cods, hakes, grenadiers and other gadiform fishes known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(10). Rome: FAO. 442 p. (Ref. 1371)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 19 May 2013

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Fisheries: minor commercial
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 6.3 - 14, mean 12.3 °C (based on 169 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00129 (0.00077 - 0.00216), b=3.14 (2.99 - 3.29), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.2   ±0.34 se; based on food items.
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.10-0.16; tmax=9).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  High vulnerability (60 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Medium.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 28.8 [7.6, 70.7] mg/100g; Iron = 0.294 [0.121, 0.874] mg/100g; Protein = 16.9 [15.0, 18.7] %; Omega3 = 0.119 [0.042, 0.315] g/100g; Selenium = 22.1 [6.4, 62.2] μg/100g; VitaminA = 31.3 [3.4, 282.7] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.713 [0.371, 1.463] mg/100g (wet weight);