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Triacanthodidae (Spikefishes) > Triacanthodinae
Etymology: Mephisto: From the personage Goethe´s "Faust", the evil spirit to whom Faust sold his soul (Ref. 45335).
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
marino benthopelagico; distribuzione batimetrica 70 - 337 m (Ref. 52753). Tropical
Indian Ocean: Somalia, Arabian Sea, and Andaman Sea.
Size / Peso / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 10.6 cm SL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 128588)
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturities | Riproduzione | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larve
Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.), 1999. Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of November 1999. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in November 1999. (Ref. 33021)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES (Ref. 128078)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Strumenti
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 1.0000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01995 (0.00906 - 0.04395), b=3.01 (2.83 - 3.19), in cm Total Length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 4.2 ±0.8 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).