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Beryciformes (Sawbellies) >
Berycidae (Alfonsinos)
Etymology: Beryx: Greek, beryx or berys = a name of a fish. Cuvier & Valenciennes (1829:221) precise that the name was used by Gesner from Varinus, but with no indication whatsoever helping identifying any species. After D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (A glossary of Greek fishes, 1947), the name actually seems to come originally from Hesychius, but perhaps the name was not originally a fish name. Thompson compares it to meryx (ruminant), applied on skaros (Scarus), so it may have been applied on a parrot fish referring to its browsing/grazing behavior described by Aristoteles and followers.
More on author: Cuvier.
Meio ambiente: milieu / Zona climática / intervalo de profundidade / faixa de distribuição
Ecologia
marinhas batidemersal; intervalo de profundidade 110 - 1300 m (Ref. 126224), usually 200 - 800 m (Ref. 126224). Deep-water; 70°N - 48°S, 180°W - 180°E
Worldwide in temperate and tropical latitudes, except the eastern Pacific. Eastern Atlantic: Greenland, Iceland, and Norway to Western Sahara and South Africa, including western Mediterranean. Western Atlantic: south to Brazil. Also found in Argentine (Ref. 2806). Indo-Pacific: East Africa (including the Madascar Ridge and Saya de Malha Bank, Ref. 33390) to Japan, Australia, and New Zealand (Ref. 5755). The limited number of records in the western Pacific is doubtless the result of limited fishing effort below 200 m (Ref. 9833).
Comprimento de primeira maturação / Tamanho / Peso / Idade
Maturidade: Lm 27.6 range ? - ? cm
Max length : 100.0 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 26340); common length : 35.0 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 9833); peso máx. publicado: 4.0 kg (Ref. 126224); idade máx. registrada: 69 anos (Ref. 86253)
Espinhos dorsais (total) : 4; Raios dorsais (total) : 18 - 20; Espinhos anais: 4; Raios anais : 25 - 30. Body deep, compressed and has a large eye. Top of head, iris, back and all fins bright blood red. Orbital bones, cheeks and opercular bones shiny white. Breast shiny yellowish white. Body silvery with thin lengthwise lines (Ref. 37108).
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal; Cross section: compressed.
Found in ca. 500 m on mud or sandy mud bottom (Ref. 11230). Occurs on the continental slope; adults demersal, young pelagic (Ref. 9563). Feeds on crustaceans, small fishes and cephalopods (Ref. 3321). A 35 cm SL specimen was found in the stomach of Latimeria (Ref. 58472). Young have heavy spines on the head (Ref. 35388).
Ciclo de vida ou comportamento de acasalamento
Maturidade | Reprodução | Desova | Ovos | Fecundidade | Larvas
Maul, G.E., 1990. Berycidae. p. 626. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 7413)
Status na Lista Vermelha da UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Ameaça para os humanos
Harmless
Uso pelos humanos
Pescarias: espécies comerciais
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Estimativas baseadas em modelos
Temperatura preferida (Ref.
123201): 4.5 - 18.3, mean 11.2 °C (based on 1031 cells).
Índice de diversidade filogenética (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.6260 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01445 (0.00900 - 0.02322), b=3.05 (2.91 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref.
93245).
Nível Trófico (Ref.
69278): 4.1 ±0.76 se; based on food items.
Resiliência (Ref.
120179): Baixo, tempo mínimo de duplicação da população 4,5 - 14 anos (K = 0.11-0.16; tmax >11).
Vulnerabilidade da pesca (Ref.
59153): High to very high vulnerability (69 of 100).
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Vulnerabilidade climática (Ref.
125649): High vulnerability (62 of 100).
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Nutrientes (Ref.
124155): Calcium = 12.8 [4.1, 39.6] mg/100g; Iron = 0.379 [0.162, 0.819] mg/100g; Protein = 17.2 [16.2, 18.3] %; Omega3 = 0.382 [0.155, 0.983] g/100g; Selenium = 22.9 [10.2, 51.9] μg/100g; VitaminA = 14 [3, 66] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.314 [0.209, 0.501] mg/100g (wet weight);
