Issue
This name has often been wrongly used for the more common Fistularia commersonii (Ref. 2334).
Environment: milieu / climate zone / distribuzione batimetrica / distribution range
Ecologia
marino; salmastro associati a barriera corallina; distribuzione batimetrica 10 - 200 m (Ref. 9563), usually 18 - 57 m (Ref. 47377). Tropical; 44°N - 39°S
Western Atlantic: Argentina (Ref. 86323), southern Brazil to Massachusetts (Ref. 47377). Eastern Atlantic: Galicia, Spain (Ref. 74931), Cape Blanc and Cape Verde to Angola (Ref. 6557). Mediterranean: Cadiz, Spain (southern Iberian Peninsula) (Ref. 34227). Reported from Walvis Bay, Namibia (Ref. 4272). Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Red Sea, to the Hawaii and Tuamoto Is., north to southern Japan and the Ogasawara Islands, south to Victoria, Australia (Ref. 33390).
Size / Peso / Age
Maturità: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 200 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 26999); common length : 180 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 47377); peso massimo pubblicato: 4.7 kg (Ref. 4883)
Spine dorsali (totale) : 0; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 13 - 15; Spine anali: 0; Raggi anali molli: 14 - 15. With a row of bony plates along the midline (absent in F. commersoni); reddish or brownish-orange in color (whereas F. commersoni is greenish-brown).
Body shape (shape guide): elongated.
Found in the sublittoral zone (Ref. 11230); inhabits coastal areas over soft bottoms, usually at depths greater than 10 m (Ref. 30573). Benthopelagic (Ref. 58302). Feeds on small fishes and shrimps (Ref. 3401). Maximum length reported is 200 cm TL (Ref. 26999), however, no specimen over 100 cm is known to J.E. Randall (Ref. 11441).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve
Fritzsche, R.A., 1990. Fistulariidae. p. 654-655. 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. 6557)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Pesca: pesca di sussistenza; Pesce da pesca sportiva: si
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Fonte Biblio.
123201): 21.3 - 29, mean 27.5 °C (based on 2574 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Fonte Biblio.
82804): PD
50 = 0.6250 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00043 (0.00025 - 0.00073), b=3.06 (2.91 - 3.21), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Fonte Biblio.
69278): 4.4 ±0.5 se; based on diet studies.
Resilienza (Fonte Biblio.
120179): Medio, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 1.4 - 4.4 anni (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Very high vulnerability (90 of 100).
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Nutrients (Ref.
124155): Calcium = 27.8 [13.8, 54.0] mg/100g; Iron = 0.659 [0.360, 1.241] mg/100g; Protein = 19 [18, 20] %; Omega3 = 0.112 [0.055, 0.241] g/100g; Selenium = 103 [49, 218] μg/100g; VitaminA = 19.3 [5.8, 63.6] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.747 [0.487, 1.175] mg/100g (wet weight);
