Caracanthus unipinna, Pygmy coral croucher

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Caracanthus unipinna (Gray, 1831)

Pygmy coral croucher
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> Perciformes/Scorpaenoidei (Scorpionfishes) > Scorpaenidae (Scorpionfishes or rockfishes) > Caracanthinae
Etymology: Caracanthus: Greek, kara = face + Greek, akantha = thorn (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Gray.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / distribuzione batimetrica / distribution range Ecologia

marino associati a barriera corallina; distribuzione batimetrica 1 - 15 m (Ref. 86942). Tropical; 32°N - 24°S

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Mappa dei ritrovamenti | Introduzioni | Faunafri

Indo-Pacific: East Africa to the Tuamoto Islands, north to southern Japan and the Ogasawara Islands, south to the Great Barrier Reef.

Size / Peso / Age

Maturità: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 5.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 2334)

Short description Chiavi di identificazione | Morfologia | Morfometria

Spine dorsali (totale) : 7 - 8; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 12 - 13; Spine anali: 2; Raggi anali molli: 11 - 12. Uniformly dark species that has smaller, but longer tubercles than C. maculatus and lacks a notch in the dorsal fin.
Body shape (shape guide): short and / or deep.

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Facultative air-breathing (Ref. 126274); Found among branches of Stylophora mordax and certain Acropora corals (Ref. 9710). It never ventures outside the confines of the coral head where it swims between the branches foraging for other coral-dwelling types (Ref. 275). Anterolateral glandular groove with venom gland; at least in dorsal-fin spines (Ref. 57406).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

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Paxton, J.R., D.F. Hoese, G.R. Allen and J.E. Hanley, 1989. Pisces. Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 7. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 665 p. (Ref. 7300)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 02 March 2015

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Venomous (Ref. 57406)





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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Fonte Biblio. 123201): 25.4 - 29.3, mean 28.3 °C (based on 2461 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Fonte Biblio. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5625   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01995 (0.00906 - 0.04395), b=3.01 (2.83 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Fonte Biblio. 69278):  3.6   ±0.59 se; based on food items.
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100). 🛈
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 193 [80, 464] mg/100g; Iron = 0.99 [0.45, 2.18] mg/100g; Protein = 17.6 [15.5, 19.8] %; Omega3 = 0.193 [0.073, 0.594] g/100g; Selenium = 19.6 [8.9, 52.2] μg/100g; VitaminA = 142 [37, 551] μg/100g; Zinc = 1.98 [1.20, 3.14] mg/100g (wet weight);