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Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Sciaenidae (Drums or croakers)
Etymology: Seriphus: Greek, seriphos, -ou, serphos = a mosquito or winged ant (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Ayres.

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Marine; demersal; depth range 1 - 21 m (Ref. 2850), usually 1 - 8 m (Ref. 2850). Subtropical; 54°N - 23°N, 133°W - 109°W

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Eastern Pacific: Yaquina Bay in Oregon, USA to southern Baja California, Mexico. Recorded from British Columbia, Canada (Ref. 11980).

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Maturity: L_m 10.3, range 10 - 10.5 cm
Max length : 30.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 2850)

Occur inshore, often over sandy bottoms. Common in bays and tidal sloughs, around pilings. Moves to deeper water at night (Ref. 9118). Form schools. Feed on small shrimps, marine worms and fishes (Ref. 9118). Pelagic spawners (Ref. 56049).

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Mean interval between spawnings is about 7.4 days (Refs. 51164, 51165).

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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)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 24 January 2020

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Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: minor commercial; bait: usually

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 9.6 - 18.6, mean 11 °C (based on 159 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 1.0000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00575 (0.00278 - 0.01190), b=3.11 (2.93 - 3.29), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.7 ±0.57 se; based on food items.

Generation time: 5.5 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 2 growth studies.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (tm=2; Annual fecundity = 300,000).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Moderate vulnerability (39 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Medium.

Seriphus politus Ayres, 1860