Paraploactis trachyderma, Mossback velvetfish

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Paraploactis trachyderma Bleeker, 1865

Mossback velvetfish
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Perciformes/Scorpaenoidei (Scorpionfishes) > Aploactinidae (Velvetfishes)
Etymology: Paraploactis: Greek, para = the side of + Greek, hoplon = weapon + Greek, aktis = ray, sting (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Bleeker.

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

Marine; demersal; depth range ? - 20 m (Ref. 86942). Subtropical; 20°S - 36°S

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Indo-Pacific: endemic to Australia.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Snout with minute cirri; large patch on tip of snout across lachrymal bones about equal in size to those in smaller patch on nasal bone. Fleshy pad on isthmus with width about 1/4-1/3 of its length (Ref. 39602).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Found inshore, in soft bottom.

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Paxton, J.R., D.F. Hoese, G.R. Allen and J.E. Hanley, 1989. Pisces. Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 7. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 665 p. (Ref. 7300)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)


CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | BOLDSystems | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: genus, species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GenBank: genome, nucleotide | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | MitoFish | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go, Search | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoobank | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 17.8 - 25.7, mean 22.3 °C (based on 282 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5078   [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).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.4   ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).