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FishBase 1 thumbnail  •  slide show español Overview Main identification features elongate;snout greater than eye dorsal and anal finsfront low vertebrae: 30-31 Elongate, shallow to moderately deep body; dorsal rays III, 41-48 (usually 43-47); anal rays III, 35-44 (usually 38); pectoral rays 19-23, usually 21; pelvic fins absent; tail fin strongly forked; 23-26 gill rakers on first arch; snout longer than eye diameter; dorsal fin slightly raised at front, highest at about 5th ray; anal also higher at front but its height <1/2 that of dorsal; high point of dorsal and anal fin is angular, with only slightly elongated rays; 30-31 vertebrae. Irridescent blue-green above, silvery belowwhite to bluish on back. Size: attains 36cm. Inhabits sand bottoms of exposed coasts. Depth: 9-91 m. British Columbia to southern Baja and the west and northeast of the Gulf of California. Attributes Abundance: Common. Cites: Not listed. Climate Zone: North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California); Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap). Depth Range Max: 91 m. Depth Range Min: 9 m. Diet: zooplankton; bony fishes; pelagic jellyfish/ctenophores; Pelagic crustacea. Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=54; Southern limit=24; Western limit=-128; Eastern limit=-110; Latitudinal range=30; Longitudinal range=18. Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva. Feeding Group: Planktivore; Carnivore. FishBase Habitat: Bentho-Pelagic. Global Endemism: East Pacific endemic; TEP non-endemic; All species. Habitat: Water column; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove). Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only. IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed. Length Max: 36 cm. Regional Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Northern Gulf of California endemic; Continent only; Temperate Eastern Pacific, primarily; Continent; All species. Residency: Resident. Salinity: Marine; Marine Only. Water Column Position: Bottom; Mid Water; Near Bottom; Bottom + water column; Names Scientific source: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Links to other sites Fishbase Catalog of Fishes Integrated Taxonomic Information System References Ayres, W. O., 1860., Description of fishes., Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1), 2:81-86. De la Cruz , J. , Galvan , F. , Abitia , L. A. , Rodriguez , J. and Gutierrez, F. J., 1994., Lista sistematica de los peces marinos de Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur (Mexico). Systematic List of marine fishes from Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur (Mexico)., Ciencias Marinas, 20:17-31. Findley, L.T., Hendrickx, M.E., Brusca, R.C., van der Heiden, A.M., Hastings, P.A., Torre, J., 2003., Diversidad de la Macrofauna Marina del Golfo de California, Mexico., CD-ROM versión 1.0. Projecto de la Macrofauna del Golfo .  Derechos reservados de los autores y Conservación Internacional. Galván-Magaña, F., Gutiérrez-Sánchez, F., Abitia-Cárdenas, L.A., Rodríguez-Romero, J., 2000., The distribution and affinities of the shore fishes of the Baja California Sur lagoons. In Aquatic Ecosystems of Mexico: Status and Scope. Eds. M. Manuwar, S.G. Lawrence, I.F. Manuwar & D.F. Malley. Ecovision World Monograph Series., Backhuys Publishers:383-398. Horn, M.H., 1970., Systematics and biology of the stromateoid fishes of the genus Peprilus., Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard, 140:165-261. 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. Acknowledgements Ross Robertson, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page. Supported by National Biological Information Infrastructure National Science Foundation go to Discover Life's Facebook group Following modified from FishBase    Top | See original http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Peprilus&speciesname=simillimus ---> http://192.134.151.83/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Peprilus&speciesname=simillimus http://192.134.151.83/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Peprilus&speciesname=simillimus ---> https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Peprilus&speciesname=simillimus https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Peprilus&speciesname=simillimus ---> https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/summary/Peprilus-simillimus.html You can sponsor this page Common name (e.g. trout) contains begins with begins with ends with is Genus + Species (e.g. Gadus morhua) About this page More Info Plus d'info Mais info Languages Arabic Bahasa/Malay Bangla Chinese(Si) Chinese(Tr) Deutsch English Español Farsi Français Greek Hindi Italiano Japanese Lao Nederlands Português(Br) Português(Pt) Russian Swedish Thai Vietnamese User feedbacks Comments &   Corrections Fish Forum Guest Book Facebook Citation Uploads Attach website Upload photo Upload video Upload   references Fish Watcher Related species Species in    Peprilus Species in    Stromateidae - Classification - Stromateidae Scombriformes Teleostei Chordata Animalia Peprilus simillimus ( Ayres , 1860 ) Pacific pompano Add your observation in Fish Watcher Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050 This map was computer-generated and has not yet been reviewed. Peprilus simillimus   AquaMaps   Data sources: GBIF OBIS Upload your photos  and  videos Pictures | Google image Peprilus simillimus Picture by FAO Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes( genus , species ) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa Teleostei (teleosts) > Scombriformes (Mackerels) > Stromateidae (Butterfishes) Etymology: Peprilus: Greek, peprilos, paprax, certain fish from Tracia . More on author: Ayres . Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology Marine; benthopelagic; depth range 9 - 91 m (Ref. 2850 ). Subtropical; 52°N - 23°N, 129°W - 109°W Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Point map | Introductions | Faunafri Northeast Pacific: Queen Charlotte Sound in British Columbia, Canada to southern Baja California Sur and the Gulf of California. Occurrence in Nicaragua needs verification. Size / Weight / Age Maturity: L m   ?   range ? - ? cm Max length : 28.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 9346 ) Short description Morphology | Morphometrics Dorsal spines (total): 3; Dorsal soft rays (total): 45-47; Anal spines : 3; Anal soft rays : 39 - 44; Vertebrae : 29. Brilliantly iridescent, green or blue above, silvery below; dusky on fins (Ref. 6885 ). Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic) Commonly found on sand bottom of exposed coasts. Usually occurs in shallow water near shore and often forms small, but fairly dense, schools (Ref. 4563 ). Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator | Collaborators 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 )   Least Concern (LC)  ; Date assessed: 02 May 2008 CITES Not Evaluated CMS (Ref. 116361 ) Not Evaluated Threat to humans   Harmless Human uses Fisheries: commercial; gamefish: yes FAO - Fisheries: landings ; Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us More information Countries FAO areas Ecosystems Occurrences Introductions Stocks Ecology Diet Food items Food consumption Ration Common names Synonyms Metabolism Predators Ecotoxicology Reproduction Maturity Spawning Spawning aggregation Fecundity Eggs Egg development Age/Size Growth Length-weight Length-length Length-frequencies Morphometrics Morphology Larvae Larval dynamics Recruitment Abundance BRUVS References Aquaculture Aquaculture profile Strains Genetics Electrophoreses Heritability Diseases Processing Nutrients Mass conversion Collaborators Pictures Stamps, Coins Misc. 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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804 ):  PD 50 = 0.5020   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01259 (0.00663 - 0.02390), b=3.11 (2.95 - 3.27), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245 ). Trophic level (Ref. 69278 ):  4.0   ±0.2 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives Resilience (Ref. 120179 ):  High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Assuming tm=1). Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153 ):  Low vulnerability (24 of 100). Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649 ):  Moderate to high vulnerability (50 of 100). Price category (Ref. 80766 ):   High . Nutrients (Ref. 124155 ):  Calcium = 74.1 [35.3, 186.2] mg/100g; Iron = 0.895 [0.407, 1.915] mg/100g; Protein = 17.7 [15.9, 19.4] %; Omega3 = 0.329 [0.174, 0.615] g/100g; Selenium = 32.1 [14.4, 75.4] μg/100g; VitaminA = 11.2 [2.6, 44.7] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.669 [0.409, 1.104] mg/100g (wet weight); Comments & Corrections Back to Search Random Species Back to Top Accessed through: Not available FishBase mirror site : localhost Page last modified by : mrius-barile - 20 July 2016 Fatal error : Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function checkEcotox(), 1 passed in /var/www/html/summary/speciessummary.php on line 2304 and exactly 3 expected in /var/www/html/includes/speciessummary.lib.php:2579 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/summary/speciessummary.php(2304): checkEcotox() #1 {main} thrown in /var/www/html/includes/speciessummary.lib.php on line 2579 Updated: 2024-04-19 11:04:19 gmt FishBase | Search | All Living Things | Top © Designed by The Polistes Corporation