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Common names: Brazilian basslet, Grama, Loreto
Occurrence: endemic
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: commercial | Ref: Sazima, I., J.L. Gasparini and R.L. Mourra, 1998
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Uses: live export: yes;
Comments: Ranges from Rio Grande do Norte south to Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro, including Manuel Luiz Reefs and Fernando de Noronha (Ref. 27309, 57756). Museum: Roncadeira, Marataizes, Espirito Santo, MZUSP 51089 (Ref. 27309). One of the most popular fish in the aquarium fish trade and exports to the USA, Europe, and Japan increase the collecting pressure (Ref. 27309). Traded as an aquarium fish at Fortaleza, Ceará where it is often misidentified as Gramma loreto by untrained wholesalers (Ref. 49392).
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Sazima, I., J.L. Gasparini and R.L. Mourra, 1998
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Common names from other countries

Grama, Brasiliansk febars, Loreto, ... more

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> Ovalentaria/misc (Various families in series Ovalentaria) > Grammatidae (Basslets)
Etymology: Gramma: Greek, gramma, atos = signal, mark (Ref. 45335); brasiliensis: Named for the given distribution of this basslet; endemic to the Brazilian Province..

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

marinhas associadas(os) a recifes; intervalo de profundidade 3 - 22 m (Ref. 27309). Tropical; 8°S - 23°S

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Southwest Atlantic: endemic to Brazil.

Tamanho / Peso / Idade

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 6.6 cm SL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 27309)

Found over coral and rocky bottoms, on the mainland coast and on coastal as well as oceanic islands. May be solitary or in groups of up to 4 individuals in small caves and under ledges, often swimming upside down, oriented to the ceiling. Feeds by picking at planktonic organisms in the water column; observed occasionally cleaning other fishes, including the pomacentrid Chromis multilineata and the haemulid Haemulon plumieri (Ref. 27309).

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Sazima, I., J.L. Gasparini and R.L. Mourra, 1998. Gramma brasiliensis, a new basslet from the western South Atlantic (Perciformes: Grammatidae). aqua, J. Ichthyol. Aquat. Biol. 3(1):39-43. (Ref. 27309)

Categoria na Lista Vermelha da IUCN (Ref. 130435)

Não avaliado

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Ameaça para o homem

Harmless

Utilização humana

Pescarias: espécies comerciais; Aquário: Espécies comerciais

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 24.7 - 27.3, mean 26.2 (based on 83 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5313 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00389 (0.00180 - 0.00842), b=3.12 (2.94 - 3.30), in cm Total Length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).

Nível Trófico (Ref. 69278): 3.4 ±0.45 se; based on food items.

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Categoria de preço (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

Gramma brasiliensis Sazima, Gasparini & Moura, 1998