Gobionotothen gibberifrons, Humped rockcod : fisheries

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Gobionotothen gibberifrons (Lönnberg, 1905)

Humped rockcod
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Classification / Names Nomi Comuni | Sinonimi | Catalog of Fishes(Genere, Specie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Perciformes/Notothenioidei (Icefishes) > Nototheniidae (Cod icefishes) > Nototheniinae
Etymology: Gobionotothen: Latin, gobius = gudgeon + see under Notothenia;  gibberifrons: gibberifrons from Latin giber a hump, frons forehead, humped forehead (Ref. 11892).
More on author: Lönnberg.

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

marino demersale; distribuzione batimetrica 6 - 429 m (Ref. 11892). Polar; 53°S - 67°S, 75°W - 75°E

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Point map | Introduzioni | Faunafri

Southern Ocean: Scotia Arc and Heard Island. Also distributed in the South Atlantic, near the southern Shetland, southern Sandwich, southern Orkney Islands, and near South Georgia Island (Ref. 4883).

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm 37.7  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 55.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 5179); common length : 40.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 2121)

Short description Morfologia | Morfometria

Spine dorsali (totale): 6 - 8; Raggi dorsali molli (totale): 31-34; Raggi anali molli: 31 - 34. Upper part of head and body irregularly spotted and blotched. Rarely with traces of darker cross-bars, young with irregular cross-bars, broken up into three or four series of alternating spots (Ref. 11892).

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

Mature females may spawn for the first time from around 6-8 years of age (Ref. 71843).

Main reference Upload your references | Bibliografia | Coordinatore | Collaboratori

Dewitt, H.H., P.C. Heemstra and O. Gon, 1990. Nototheniidae. p. 279-331. In O. Gon and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Fishes of the Southern Ocean. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, South Africa. (Ref. 5179)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Pesca: scarso interesse commerciale
FAO - pesca: landings; Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Fonti Internet

AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | BOLDSystems | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: Genere, Specie | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - pesca: landings; 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, ricerca | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): -1.3 - 0.7, mean -0.6 °C (based on 36 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5312   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00407 (0.00344 - 0.00483), b=3.24 (3.19 - 3.29), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.3   ±0.2 se; based on diet studies.
Resilienza (Ref. 120179):  Basso, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 4.5 - 14 anni (Fec=21,699; tm=10).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate vulnerability (42 of 100).
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649):  Moderate to high vulnerability (46 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Very high.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 19.7 [11.5, 46.6] mg/100g; Iron = 0.384 [0.181, 0.754] mg/100g; Protein = 17.7 [15.5, 19.6] %; Omega3 = 0.329 [0.180, 0.572] g/100g; Selenium = 16.6 [7.0, 41.1] μg/100g; VitaminA = 12.4 [2.7, 59.6] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.497 [0.332, 0.747] mg/100g (wet weight); based on nutrient studies.