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Mulloidichthys vanicolensis (Valenciennes, 1831)
GOLDSTRIPE GOATFISH
Banded Goatfish; Gold-striped Goat-fish; Gold-striped Goatfish; Yellow-stripe Goatfish; Yellowfin Goatfish; Yellowstripe Goatfish; Mulloides vanicolensis Valenciennes, 1831; Mulloidichthys auriflamma Forsskål, 1775; Upeneus vanicolensis Valenciennes, 1831

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Mulloidichthys vanicolensis
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Mulloidichthys vanicolensis

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Overview
Main identification features
  • yellow stripe
  • yellow tail fin
  • gill rakers: 33
  • pectoral: 17 rays

Dorsal fin VIII + I, 8 (first dorsal spine minute, often imbedded); anal rays I-II, 6; pectoral rays 16-17 (usually 17), fin length 19.2-23.2% (average 21.1%) of standard length; barbel length 20-26% (average 22.9%) of standard length; gill rakers 31-36 (average 33); lateral line scales 36-42.

Body silvery white with a blue-edged yellow stripe along its center; tail and other median fins yellow.

Size: reaches 31 cm.

Habitat: rocky and Coral reefs and adjacent sand areas.

Depth: 2-115 m.

Widespread throughout the Indo-central Pacific. While it was not thought to occur in the tropical eastern Pacific its occurrence there was demonstrated by genetic analysis. Very similar to M. dentatus, but differs in having more pectoral fin rays, a slightly longer pectoral fin, slightly longer barbels and more gill rakers. These differences are so slight that in practice it is probably not possible to separate all individals of the two species when they are together at the same location.


Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap); Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 115 m.
Depth Range Min: 2 m.
Diet: mobile benthic worms; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; bony fishes.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=24; Southern limit=8; Western limit=-110; Eastern limit=-82; Latitudinal range=16; Longitudinal range=28.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Reef Associated.
Global Endemism: All Pacific (West + Central + East); Indo-Pacific only (Indian + Pacific Oceans); TEP non-endemic; "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific); All species.
Habitat: Corals; Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Rocks; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Sand & gravel; Reef (rock &/or coral); Reef and soft bottom.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 31 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s); Continent; Continent + Island (s); Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Eastern Pacific non-endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;


Names
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References
  • Cuvier , G. and Valenciennes, A., 1831., Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome septième. Livre septième. Des Squamipennes. Livre huitième. Des poissons à pharyngiens labyrinthiformes., Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, 7:1-531.
  • Love, M.S., Mecklenburg, C.W., Mecklenburg, T.A., Thorsteinson, L.K., 2005., es of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Artic Ocena species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon border., U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, 288pp.
  • Stefien , C. A. , Randall , J. E. and Rosenblatt, R. H., 1994., Genetic and morphological divergence of a circumtropical complex of goatfishes: Mulloidichthys vanicolensis, M. dentatus, and M. martinicus., Pac. Sci., 48:44-56.

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Mulloidichthys vanicolensis ( Valenciennes , 1831 )

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes( genus , species ) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Mulliformes (Goatfishes) > Mullidae (Goatfishes)
Etymology: Mulloidichthys: Latin, mullus = soft + Greek, ichthys = fish (Ref. 45335 ) .
More on author: Valenciennes .

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

Marine; reef-associated; depth range 1 - 113 m (Ref. 90102 ). Tropical; 33°N - 34°S, 32°E - 109°W

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Indo-Pacific: Red Sea, East Africa, Comoro Islands and Mascarenes, east to the Hawaiian Islands, Line Islands and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan, south to Joseph Bonaparte Gulf (northern in front of Western Australia), New South Wales (Australia), Lord Howe, Norfolk, Kermadec Islands, New Caledonia, Tonga and Gambier Islands (Ref. 86817 ). Reported from Easter Island (Ref. 89467 ). Records from Eastern Pacific in Mexico and Panama need further confirmation.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L m 24.0 , range 21 - ? cm
Max length : 39.8 cm FL male/unsexed; (Ref. 125599 ); common length : 25.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 30573 ); max. published weight: 1.1 kg (Ref. 125599 )

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9; Anal spines : 1; Anal soft rays : 7. Back red-orange, sides and belly whitish; yellow longitudinal band present; no dark blotch on under middle of 1st dorsal fin (Ref. 5405 ). All fins yellow (Ref. 48636 ). Head length 2.9-3.4 in SL, length of snout 2.2.-2.6 and barbel 1.2-1.5 in HL. Body depth 3.4-4.5 in SL. (Ref. 90102 )

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

This occasionally schooling species inhabits sandy bottoms of reef flats, lagoons, coastal and seaward reefs (Ref. 9710 , 90102 ). Benthopelagic (Ref. 58302 ). In large inactive aggregations by day, dispersing to sand flats to feed at night (Ref. 9710 ). Sometimes mixes with blue-striped snapper Lutjanus kasmira and shows blue stripes (Ref. 48636 ). Feeds on small worms and crustaceans. Also caught using ringnets (Ref. 5213 ). Minimum depth reported taken from Ref. 30874.

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

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Myers, R.F. , 1991. Micronesian reef fishes. Second Ed. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 298 p. (Ref. 1602 )

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435 )

  Least Concern (LC)  ; Date assessed: 11 March 2015

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361 )

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Fisheries: commercial; gamefish: yes FAO - Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201 ): 24.3 - 28.9, mean 27.7 °C (based on 1376 cells). Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804 ):  PD 50 = 0.5078   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01023 (0.00888 - 0.01180), b=3.09 (3.05 - 3.13), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245 ). Trophic level (Ref. 69278 ):  3.6   ±0.50 se; based on food items. Resilience (Ref. 120179 ):  Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.20-0.97). Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153 ):  Low vulnerability (24 of 100). Price category (Ref. 80766 ):   Medium . Nutrients (Ref. 124155 ):  Calcium = 54.8 [29.5, 90.0] mg/100g; Iron = 0.594 [0.271, 0.987] mg/100g; Protein = 18.9 [17.1, 20.5] %; Omega3 = 0.173 [0.115, 0.318] g/100g; Selenium = 42 [25, 73] μg/100g; VitaminA = 62.3 [21.7, 216.6] μg/100g; Zinc = 1.04 [0.66, 1.46] mg/100g (wet weight);

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