Common names from other countries
Issue
Only Bregmaceros sp. in the Mediterranean Sea. Before 2017, the species has been misidentified as Bregmaceros atlanticus in the Mediiterranean Sea (Ref. 85575).
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
marino; non migratori; distribuzione batimetrica ? - 350 m (Ref. 11897). Tropical
Western Atlantic: southeast Caribbean (Ref. 4496). Eastern Atlantic: Morocco to Namibia; reported from the Cape, South Africa (Ref. 4096). Mediterranean Sea: Lessepsian migrant (Ref. 85575). Indian Ocean and tropical western Pacific to Fiji (Ref. 4496).
The species has been misidentified as Bregmaceros atlanticus in all previous reports in the Mediiterranean Sea before 2017 (Ref. 85575).
Size / Peso / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 7.6 cm SL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 4496)
Short description
Chiavi di identificazione | Morfologia | Morfometria
Spine dorsali (totale) : 0; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 42 - 56; Spine anali: 0; Raggi anali molli: 42 - 55; Vertebre: 47 - 52. Body is elongate, yellowish-white with a brownish stripe along each side of the back.
Neritic, probably undergo vertical migration. Migrates into and out of anoxic water on a diurnal basis.
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturities | Riproduzione | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larve
Cohen, D.M., 1990. Bregmacerotidae. p. 524-525. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 4496)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES (Ref. 128078)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Strumenti
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Ref.
115969): 16 - 28, mean 23.7 (based on 1637 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5001 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00372 (0.00152 - 0.00908), b=3.19 (2.97 - 3.41), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.2 ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).