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Common names: Chopa amarilla, Chub, Yellow chub
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: common (usually seen) | Ref: Claro, R., 1994
Importance: minor commercial | Ref: Claro, R., 1994
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Caught occasionally. Also Ref. 3725, 26340.
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/cu.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Claro, R. and L.R. Parenti, 2001
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Calicagère jaune, Yellow chub, Yellow chub, ... more

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> Centrarchiformes (Basses) > Kyphosidae (Sea chubs)
Etymology: Kyphosus: Greek, kyphos = bent (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Cuvier.

Issue
This species is synonym of Kyphosus vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) according to Knudsen et al. (2013: Ref. 95491). The species page will be removed if proven to be not valid; please send references.

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

marin récifal; profondeur 1 - 15 m (Ref. 95687). Subtropical; 42°N - 34°S, 98°W - 23°E

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Western Atlantic: Cape Cod, Massachusetts (USA) to Brazil. Also found in Argentina (Ref. 86336). Eastern Atlantic: Madeira Island (Ref. 74541), São Tiago Island (Cape Verde) and Angola (Ref. 7373); Sao Tome Island (Ref. 30488).

Taille / Poids / Âge

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 90.0 cm SL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 6547); common length : 45.0 cm TL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 3725); poids max. publié: 3.9 kg (Ref. 40637)

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Épines dorsales (Total) : 11; Rayons mous dorsaux (Total) : 13 - 15; Épines anales: 3; Rayons mous anaux: 12 - 13. grey with longitudinal brassy stripes on body and 2 brassy horizontal bands on head. Opercular membrane slightly pigmented. Each jaw with a regular row of close-set, strong, incisor-like, round-tipped teeth of a peculiar hockey-stick shape, their bases set horizontally, resembling a radially striated bony plate inside mouth (Ref 52729).

Inhabits shallow waters, especially over rocky bottoms in coral reef areas; also among floating Sargassum weeds (Ref. 3725). Feeds on algae including much Sargassum (Ref. 5521). Marketed fresh (Ref. 3725).

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Oviparous (Ref. 101771).

Référence principale Upload your references | Références | Coordinateur | Collaborateurs

Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray, 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref. 7251)

Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435)

Non évalué

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Menace pour l'homme

Harmless

Utilisations par l'homme

Pêcheries: intérêt commercial mineur; pêche sportive: oui

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 23.1 - 28.1, mean 27.2 (based on 980 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01585 (0.00753 - 0.03337), b=3.02 (2.83 - 3.21), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).

Niveau trophique (Ref. 69278): 2.0 ±0.0 se; based on diet studies.

Résilience (Ref. 120179): Faible, temps minimum de doublement de population : 4,5 à 14 années (Assuming tm>4).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): High to very high vulnerability (66 of 100).

Catégorie de prix (Ref. 80766): High.

Kyphosus incisor (Cuvier, 1831)