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Common names: Black sea bass, Giant sea bass, Sea bass
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Rare north of southen California (Ref. 2850).
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Eschmeyer, W.N., E.S. Herald and H. Hammann, 1983
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Common names from other countries

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> Acropomatiformes (Oceanic basses) > Stereolepididae (Giant seabasses)
Etymology: Stereolepis: Greek, stereos = dense + Greek,lepis = scale (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Ayres.

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

marino demersale; distribuzione batimetrica 5 - 46 m (Ref. 2850). Subtropical; 41°N - 16°N

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Eastern Pacific: Humboldt Bay in California, USA to Mexico. Northwest Pacific: Japan (Ref. 559).

Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 250 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 40637); peso massimo pubblicato: 255.6 kg (Ref. 4699); Età massima riportata: 75 anni (Ref. 4563)

Occur on rock bottoms; near shore, outside kelp beds and along drop-offs (Ref. 2850). Large specimens usually found deeper than 30 m, small ones over sand and in kelp beds mostly from 12-21 m (Ref. 2850). Aggregate for spawning in summer (Ref. 2850). Pelagic spawners (Ref. 56049). Longevity of 90 to 100 years (Ref. 56049) stemmed from speculation on the age of a 557 lb fish caught in 1962, but the oldest age determined from otoliths of a 435 lb fish was 72 to75 years (Ref. 4563). Validated age so far is up to >50 years using bomb radiocarbon (A.H. Andrews, pers. comm.)

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Pelagic spawner (Ref. 56049).

Main reference Upload your references | Bibliografia | Coordinatore : Sedberry, George | Collaboratori

Eschmeyer, W.N., E.S. Herald and H. Hammann, 1983. A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America. Boston (MA, USA): Houghton Mifflin Company. xii+336 p. (Ref. 2850)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Critically Endangered (CR) (A1bd); Date assessed: 30 April 2004

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Pesca: commerciale; Pesce da pesca sportiva: si

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 14.8 - 23, mean 20.9 (based on 48 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.8125 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01122 (0.00514 - 0.02450), b=3.04 (2.87 - 3.21), in cm Total Length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 4.5 ±0.80 se; based on food items.

Resilienza (Ref. 120179): Molto basso, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione più di 14 anni (tm=11; tmax=75; also Musick et al. 2000 (Ref. 36717)).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Very high vulnerability (86 of 100).

Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649): High vulnerability (63 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Very high.

Stereolepis gigas Ayres, 1859