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Berycidae (Alfonsinos)
Etymology: Beryx: Greek, beryx or berys = a name of a fish. Cuvier & Valenciennes (1829:221) precise that the name was used by Gesner from Varinus, but with no indication whatsoever helping identifying any species. After D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (A glossary of Greek fishes, 1947), the name actually seems to come originally from Hesychius, but perhaps the name was not originally a fish name. Thompson compares it to meryx (ruminant), applied on skaros (Scarus), so it may have been applied on a parrot fish referring to its browsing/grazing behavior described by Aristoteles and followers.
More on author: Cuvier.
Environnement : milieu / zone climatique / profondeur / gamme de distribution
Écologie
marin bathydémersal; profondeur 110 - 1300 m (Ref. 126224), usually 200 - 800 m (Ref. 126224). Deep-water; 70°N - 48°S, 180°W - 180°E
Worldwide in temperate and tropical latitudes, except the eastern Pacific. Eastern Atlantic: Greenland, Iceland, and Norway to Western Sahara and South Africa, including western Mediterranean. Western Atlantic: south to Brazil. Also found in Argentine (Ref. 2806). Indo-Pacific: East Africa (including the Madascar Ridge and Saya de Malha Bank, Ref. 33390) to Japan, Australia, and New Zealand (Ref. 5755). The limited number of records in the western Pacific is doubtless the result of limited fishing effort below 200 m (Ref. 9833).
Longueur à la première maturité / Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturité: Lm 27.6  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 100.0 cm TL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 26340); common length : 35.0 cm TL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 9833); poids max. publié: 4.0 kg (Ref. 126224); âge max. reporté: 69 années (Ref. 86253)
Épines dorsales (Total) : 4; Rayons mous dorsaux (Total) : 18 - 20; Épines anales: 4; Rayons mous anaux: 25 - 30. Body deep, compressed and has a large eye. Top of head, iris, back and all fins bright blood red. Orbital bones, cheeks and opercular bones shiny white. Breast shiny yellowish white. Body silvery with thin lengthwise lines (Ref. 37108).
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal; Cross section: compressed.
Found in ca. 500 m on mud or sandy mud bottom (Ref. 11230). Occurs on the continental slope; adults demersal, young pelagic (Ref. 9563). Feeds on crustaceans, small fishes and cephalopods (Ref. 3321). A 35 cm SL specimen was found in the stomach of Latimeria (Ref. 58472). Young have heavy spines on the head (Ref. 35388).
Cycle de vie et comportement reproducteur
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
Maul, G.E., 1990. Berycidae. p. 626. 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. 7413)
Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Menace pour l'homme
Harmless
Utilisations par l'homme
Pêcheries: commercial
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Estimations basées sur des modèles
Température préférée (Réf.
123201): 4.5 - 18.3, mean 11.2 °C (based on 1031 cells).
Indice de diversité phylogénétique (Réf.
82804): PD
50 = 0.6260 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01445 (0.00900 - 0.02322), b=3.05 (2.91 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref.
93245).
Niveau trophique (Réf.
69278): 4.1 ±0.76 se; based on food items.
Résilience (Réf.
120179): Faible, temps minimum de doublement de population : 4,5 à 14 années (K = 0.11-0.16; tmax >11).
Vulnérabilité de la pêche (Ref.
59153): High to very high vulnerability (69 of 100).
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Vulnérabilité climatique (Ref.
125649): High vulnerability (62 of 100).
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Nutriments (Ref.
124155): Calcium = 12.8 [4.1, 39.6] mg/100g; Iron = 0.379 [0.162, 0.819] mg/100g; Protein = 17.2 [16.2, 18.3] %; Omega3 = 0.382 [0.155, 0.983] g/100g; Selenium = 22.9 [10.2, 51.9] μg/100g; VitaminA = 14 [3, 66] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.314 [0.209, 0.501] mg/100g (wet weight);