Mulloidichthys pfluegeri, Pflueger's goatfish : fisheries, gamefish

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Mulloidichthys pfluegeri (Steindachner, 1900)

Pflueger's goatfish
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Classification / Names Nombres comunes | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Especie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Mulliformes (Goatfishes) > Mullidae (Goatfishes)
Etymology: Mulloidichthys: Latin, mullus = soft + Greek, ichthys = fish (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Unfortunately, Steindachner says nothing in his original brief text about the person he was honouring in the binomial. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on author: Steindachner.

Issue
FishBase common name changed from Orange goatfish to Pflueger's goatfish (Uiblein et al., 2024: Ref. 130857).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / rango de profundidad / distribution range Ecología

marino asociado a arrecife; rango de profundidad 30 - 110 m (Ref. 1602). Tropical; 30°N - 30°S, 51°E - 133°W

Distribución Países | Áreas FAO | Ecosistemas | Ocurrencias, apariciones | Mapa de puntos | Introducciones | Faunafri

Indo-Pacific: Reunion to the Hawaiian, Marquesan, and Society islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to Tonga; Mariana and Marshall Islands in Micronesia.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 40.0 cm SL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 1602)

Short description Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría

Espinas anales: 1; Radios blandos anales: 7 - 8.
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal.

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

This schooling species occurs at depths exceeding 30 m to at least 110 over sandy patches and limestone bottoms (Ref. 5439). Benthopelagic (Ref. 58302). It is mainly diurnal. May display four alternating dark red and light red bars on the body when feeding (Ref. 5439).

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

Main reference Upload your references | Referencias | Coordinador : Randall, John E. | Colaboradores

Myers, R.F., 1991. Micronesian reef fishes. Second Ed. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 298 p. (Ref. 1602)

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

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 11 March 2015

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless (Ref. 4887)





Human uses

Pesquerías: comercial; pesca deportiva: si
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Fuentes de Internet

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Referencia 123201): 23.4 - 28.3, mean 27.2 °C (based on 156 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Referencia 82804):  PD50 = 0.5078   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01023 (0.00493 - 0.02126), b=3.10 (2.93 - 3.27), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278):  3.9   ±0.59 se; based on food items.
Resiliencia (Referencia 120179):  Medio, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 1.4-4.4 años (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate vulnerability (39 of 100). 🛈
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Medium.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 42 [22, 69] mg/100g; Iron = 0.471 [0.223, 0.802] mg/100g; Protein = 18.8 [17.0, 20.5] %; Omega3 = 0.169 [0.114, 0.304] g/100g; Selenium = 36.1 [21.5, 59.9] μg/100g; VitaminA = 97.9 [34.4, 340.1] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.994 [0.631, 1.382] mg/100g (wet weight);