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Western Atlantic: northeastern Florida and northern Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean coast of Central and South America; absent from West Indies.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: L
m
8.6
, range 7 - 9.8 cm
Max length : 18.3 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref.
30499
); common length : 7.5 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref.
12193
); max. reported age: 3.00 years (Ref.
12193
)
Dorsal
soft rays
(total): 25-37. Moderately long snout (1.9-2.7 in head length) (Ref.
26938
).
Common in bays and estuaries. Usually found amongst vegetation (Ref.
26938
). Enters fresh water. Ovoviviparous (Ref.
205
). The male carries the eggs in a brood pouch which is found under the tail (Ref.
205
).
Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray
, 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref.
7251
)
Preferred temperature (Ref.
123201
): 23.3 - 28.1, mean 27.2 °C (based on 814 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804
): PD
50
= 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00028 (0.00012 - 0.00065), b=3.21 (3.03 - 3.39), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-body shape (Ref.
93245
).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278
): 3.3 ±0.45 se; based on food items.
Resilience (Ref.
120179
): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (tmax=3).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153
): Low vulnerability (12 of 100).
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