Tetragonurus cuvieri, Smalleye squaretail

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Tetragonurus cuvieri Risso, 1810

Smalleye squaretail
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Actinopteri (ray-finned fishes) > Scombriformes (Mackerels) > Tetragonuridae (Squaretails)
Etymology: Tetragonurus: Greek, tetra = four + Greek, gonia = angle + Greek, oura = tail (Ref. 45335);  cuvieri: Named after G.C.L.D. Cuvier 1769-1832, a founder of modern ichthyology (Ref. 6885).
More on author: Risso.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; bathypelagic; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); depth range 1 - 800 m (Ref. 10823). Deep-water

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Eastern Pacific: Aleutian Islands, Alaska to Baja California, Mexico; Chile (Ref. 9068). Western Pacific: Japan (Ref. 559), New Zealand and Australia (Ref. 6885). Western Indian Ocean: Natal, South Africa (Ref. 4415). Atlantic Ocean, including the Mediterranean (Ref. 4415).

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 70.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 4415)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 15 - 21; Dorsal soft rays (total): 12-15; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 11 - 13; Vertebrae: 52. Pectorals and pelvic fins small (Ref. 6885). Dark brown, paler at base of tail and on head, otherwise almost uniform throughout (Ref. 6885).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Oceanic, usually near surface; possibly near bottom. Perhaps occurs in schools. Young usually among jellyfishes or inside large salps. Feeds on jellyfishes and salps (Ref. 2850), also other soft-bodied coelenterates, ctenophores, as well as plankton. There are conflicting reports that the flesh of this species is poisonous (Ref. 11149).

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Haedrich, R.L., 1986. Tetragonuridae. p. 851. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (Ref. 4415)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 125652)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 19 May 2013

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Reports of ciguatera poisoning (Ref. 4690)





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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 5.6 - 17.9, mean 10.1 °C (based on 809 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.7500   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00389 (0.00180 - 0.00842), b=3.12 (2.94 - 3.30), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.8   ±0.35 se; based on food items.
Generation time: 11.0 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 1 growth studies.
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (K=0.10).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  High to very high vulnerability (66 of 100).
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 15.2 [7.5, 29.5] mg/100g ; Iron = 0.38 [0.21, 0.71] mg/100g ; Protein = 17.8 [16.8, 18.7] % ; Omega3 = 0.273 [0.149, 0.498] g/100g ; Selenium = 16 [7, 35] μg/100g ; VitaminA = 20.6 [5.2, 80.1] μg/100g ; Zinc = 0.434 [0.292, 0.653] mg/100g (wet weight);