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Hexagrammidae (Greenlings) > Hexagramminae
Etymology: Hexagrammos: Greek, exa = six + greek, gramma = letter,signal (Ref. 45335); stelleri: Named after G.W. Steller, naturalist with C.J. Bering's voyage of discovery (Ref. 6885).
Eponymy: Georg Wilhelm Steller (originally Stöhler) (1709–1746) was a German naturalist and explorer in the Russian service. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Entorno: milieu / zona climática / rango de profundidad / gama de distribución
Ecología
marino demersal; rango de profundidad 0 - 300 m (Ref. 50550). Temperate; 66°N - 42°N
North Pacific: Peter the Great Bay, Russia and the Sea of Japan to Cape Lisburne in the Chukchi Sea, Unimak Island in the Aleutian chain and Oregon, USA.
Tamaño / Peso / Edad
Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 48.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 2850); peso máximo publicado: 1.6 kg (Ref. 27436)
Descripción breve
Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría
Espinas dorsales (total) : 22 - 25; Radios blandos dorsales (total) : 19 - 24; Espinas anales: 0; Radios blandos anales: 23 - 25. Caudal slightly forked.
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal.
Ranges from the intertidal zone to 175 m depth, possibly to 475 m (Ref. 6793). Found near rocks, pilings and eelgrass beds (Ref. 2850). Feed on worms, crustaceans, and small fishes (Ref. 6885). Neither anterolateral glandular groove nor venom gland is present (Ref. 37773).
Male guards egg mass.
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)
Situación en la Lista Roja de la UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Amenaza para el ser humano
Harmless
Usos humanos
Pesquerías: escaso valor comercial; pesca deportiva: si; Acuario: Acuarios públicos
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Estimaciones basadas en modelos
Temperatura preferida (Referencia
123201): 1 - 7.9, mean 4 °C (based on 416 cells).
Índice de diversidad filogenética (Referencia
82804): PD
50 = 0.5176 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00692 (0.00368 - 0.01301), b=3.16 (2.99 - 3.33), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref.
93245).
Nivel trófico (Referencia
69278): 3.4 ±0.42 se; based on food items.
Resiliencia (Referencia
120179): Medio, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 1.4-4.4 años (Fec=6,679-38,408).
Vulnerabilidad pesquera (Ref.
59153): Moderate vulnerability (38 of 100).
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Nutrientes (Ref.
124155): Calcium = 45.3 [20.8, 96.8] mg/100g; Iron = 0.489 [0.223, 1.001] mg/100g; Protein = 17.9 [15.9, 19.9] %; Omega3 = 0.925 [0.413, 2.569] g/100g; Selenium = 18 [10, 42] μg/100g; VitaminA = 17.6 [5.5, 54.6] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.516 [0.351, 0.787] mg/100g (wet weight);