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Holotype ZMUC P.2329194, south-west of Fiji [20°S, 174°29´E].
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Off Dampier, WA (18º40´S) and off Townsville, QLD (16º42´S) to off Bega, NSW (36º31´S); tropical, temperate, circumglobal (not recorded from western Indian Ocean).
Note
that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur.
The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IMCRA
Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)
Eastern Atlantic: Congo to Namibia. Western Atlantic: 15°N to the Subtropical Convergence (rare in the minimum region off Brazil). Eastern Pacific: near Hawaii. Western Pacific: Japan, New Zealand and Australia (Ref.
7300
).
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: L
m
?
, range 3 - ? cm
Max length : 3.2 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref.
4479
)
Oceanic and mesopelagic, found in 300-560 m during the day (Ref.
4066
) and 60-175 m at night (Ref.
47377
). Specimens reach sexual maturity at a length of 2,7 cm.
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity
|
Reproduction
|
Spawning
|
Eggs
|
Fecundity
|
Larvae
Masuda, H., K. Amaoka, C. Araga, T. Uyeno and T. Yoshino
, 1984. The fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Vol. 1. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, Japan. 437 p. (text). (Ref.
559
)
Preferred temperature (Ref.
115969
): 11.1 - 21.4, mean 15.4 °C (based on 339 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82805
): PD
50
= 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00933 (0.00403 - 0.02161), b=3.03 (2.82 - 3.24), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245
).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278
): 3.1 ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref.
120179
): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Vulnerability (Ref.
59153
): Low vulnerability (15 of 100) .
Entered by
Torres, Armi G.
Modified by
Reyes, Rodolfo B.
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