Serranus cabrilla, Comber : fisheries, gamefish, aquarium

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Serranus cabrilla (Linnaeus, 1758)

Comber
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Perciformes/Serranoidei (Groupers) > Serranidae (Sea basses: groupers and fairy basslets)
Etymology: Serranus: Latin, serran, serranus, saw and a fish of genus Serranus (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Linnaeus.

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

Marine; demersal; depth range 5 - 500 m (Ref. 5506). Deep-water; ? - 26°C (Ref. 130590); 57°N - 35°S, 32°W - 36°E

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Eastern Atlantic: English Channel southward round the Cape of Good Hope to Natal, South Africa (Ref. 4319), including Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands (Ref. 5506). Also in the Mediterranean and western Black Sea and possibly in the Red Sea (Ref. 5506).

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm 13.7  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 40.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 5506); common length : 25.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 36731)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 10; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13-15; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 7 - 8

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Found on the shelf and upper slope on rocks, Posidonia beds, sand and mud bottoms (Ref. 5506). Adults feed on fishes, cephalopods and crustaceans (Ref. 27121).

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Heemstra, Phillip C. | Collaborators

Tortonese, E., 1986. Serranidae. p. 780-792. 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. 5506)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 10 May 2013

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Fisheries: minor commercial; gamefish: yes; aquarium: commercial
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 11.2 - 18, mean 14.4 °C (based on 327 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00912 (0.00801 - 0.01038), b=2.98 (2.94 - 3.02), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.4   ±0.3 se; based on diet studies.
Generation time: 5.7 (3.6 - 7.2) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 13 growth studies.
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.1-0.3; tmax=6).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate to high vulnerability (55 of 100).
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649):  Low vulnerability (6 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Medium.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 27.3 [13.7, 76.3] mg/100g; Iron = 0.515 [0.168, 1.123] mg/100g; Protein = 17 [15, 19] %; Omega3 = 0.397 [0.212, 0.744] g/100g; Selenium = 16.3 [6.9, 37.6] μg/100g; VitaminA = 18.4 [3.7, 96.1] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.419 [0.279, 0.660] mg/100g (wet weight);