Brama caribbea
Caribbean Pomfret
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Perciformes (Perciformes, Also Called the Acanthopteri)
Bramidae (Pomfrets)
Brama
Brama caribbea (Caribbean Pomfret)
Description
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Characters
Relatively short bodied and elliptical; dorsal fin relatively stiff, covered with scales, and originating over base of pectoral fin; anterior profile of head strongly convex; posterior naris slitlike; mouth terminal, with lower jaw projecting slightly if at all beyond upper jaw and upper jaw extending to center of eye; premaxilla separated from antimere by edentulous fold of skin; teeth of upper jaw consist of outer row of enlarged, recurved canines and inner band of villiform teeth; lower jaw has outer row of enlarged canines and inner band of villiform teeth on either side of symphysis; vomer has small patch of villiform teeth, and palatine has a single row of small, depressible teeth; posterior margins of preoperculum, interoperculum, and operculum finely serrated; gill rakers on first arch number 2 to 5 on upper limb and 8 to 11 on lower limb; measurements (% SL): head length 28%–33%, snout length 6%–8%, eye diameter 9%–12%, snout to origin of dorsal fin 41%–49%, snout to origin of anal fin 58%–65%, body depth 51%–66%; pectoral fin has about 20 rays; dorsal fin is slightly elevated anteriorly in adults and has 32 to 35 rays; pelvic fin has prominent axillary scale; anal fin is low over length and has 27 to 30 rays; upper lobe of caudal fin is considerably longer than lower lobe; scales are elongated and imbricate along posterior margin; scales in horizontal series number about 51, pored lateral line scales number 56, and predorsal scale rows number about 34; vertebrae number 36 to 38: 15 or 16 precaudal and 20 to 21 caudal
Color is brownish black and slightly darker dorsally than ventrally; interradial membranes of dorsal and anal fin are black; lining of mouth is black
Distribution
Western Atlantic from North Carolina and Bermuda to northern Brazil, including the northern and southwestern Gulf of Mexico and the Greater and Lesser Antilles
Included in the northern and southwestern Gulf of Mexico
Habitat Associations
Between the surface and about 400 m; larvae are most abundant between the surface and 50 m
Biology
Maximum known size is 270 mm TL
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2018-10-12. Resilience: High (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Commercial or Environmental Importance
Fisheries: minor commercial.
References
Mead 1957 (as Collybus drachme)
Mead 1972
Murdy et al. 1983
Shimizu 1983a
Robins and Ray 1986
Thompson and Russell 1996
Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999
Thompson 2002a
Gomes, J. (1990) Bramidae. p. 758-764. 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). JNCT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2.
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.
Cervigón, F. (1993) Los peces marinos de Venezuela. Volume 2. Fundación Científica Los Roques, Caracas,Venezuela. 497 p.
Uyeno, T., K. Matsuura and E. Fujii (eds.) (1983) Fishes trawled off Suriname and French Guiana. Japan Marine Fishery Resource Research Center, Tokyo, Japan. 519 p.
Figueiredo, J.L., A.P.D. Santos, N. Yamaguti, R.A. Bernardes and C.L. Del Bianco Rossi-Wongtschowski (2002) Peixes da zona econômica exclusiva da Região Sudeste-Sul do Brasil: Levantamento com Rede de Meia-Água. São-Paulo: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo; Imprensa Oficial do Estado, 242 p.
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