Prionotus rubio
Blackwing Searobin
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G5
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Scorpaeniformes (Lionfish, Stonefish and others)
Triglidae (Searobins)
Prionotus
Prionotus rubio (Blackwing Searobin)
Description
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Characters
Pectoral fins very long, obliquely truncate; snout relatively long, slightly concave in profile, and depressed anteriorly; rostral projection relatively broad and rounded, with crenate margin; mouth subterminal and relatively long; nasal spine and supplemental preopercular spine absent; rostral spine and first infraorbital spine present at all sizes; villiform teeth in bands in jaws, vomer, and palatine; gill rakers (including tubercles) 3 or 4 on upper limb and 10 to 14 on lower limb; head length 31%–36% SL, head depth 17%–21% SL, snout length 14%–16% SL, orbit diameter 6%–7% SL, interorbital width 4%–5% SL, upper jaw length 13%–15% SL, preopercular spine length 7%–9% SL, pectoral fin length 54%–63% SL, first free pectoral fin ray length 20%–26% SL, body depth 16%–21% SL; pectoral fin with 12 or 13 joined rays, ninth longest; first dorsal fin with 10 spines, second dorsal fin with 12 or 13 rays; anal fin rays 11 or 12; body covered with small ctenoid scales; nape scaled; chest completely scaled to isthmus
Light brown to grayish brown on upper body and side, light tan to white ventrally; first dorsal fin with black spot that fades with age; second dorsal fin lightly pigmented; pectoral fin dark, with indistinct light or dark spots on upper section and blue on lower margin; anal fin unpigmented
Distribution
Western North Atlantic from North Carolina to Cuba, including the entire Gulf of Mexico
Habitat Associations
Between shoreline and 212 m, most common between 9 and 55 m
Biology
Mysids, stomatopods, shrimps, crabs, ray-finned fishes, and to a lesser extent polychaetes
Maximum known size about 230 mm SL
Maturity reached between 80 and 120 mm TL at age one
Found from bays and estuaries to the mid-shelf.
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2012-08-20. Resilience: Medium (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Commercial or Environmental Importance
Fisheries: commercial.
References
Ginsburg 1950 (as P. pectoralis and P. salmonicolor)
Teague 1951 (as P. vanderbilti)
Hoese and Moore 1977 (as P. salmonicolor)
Hoese and Moore 1998
Ross 1977
Ross 1983 (as P. salmonicolor)
Robins and Ray 1986
Cervigón 1991
Miller and Richards 1991b
Boschung 1992
Russell et al. 1992
Huidobro-Campos and Schmitter-Soto 1993
Schaldach et al. 1997 (as P. salmonicolor)
Smith 1997
Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999
Richards and Miller 2002a
Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea and W.B. Scott (1991) Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Publ. (20):183 p.
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.
Claro, R. (1994) Características generales de la ictiofauna. p. 55-70. In R. Claro (ed.) Ecología de los peces marinos de Cuba. Instituto de Oceanología Academia de Ciencias de Cuba and Centro de Investigaciones de Quintana Roo.
Patzner, R.A. (2008) Reproductive strategies of fish. pp. 311-350. In Rocha, M.J., A. Arukwe and B.G. Kapoor (eds). Fish reproduction: cytology, biology and ecology. Science Publisher, Inc. Oxford. 631 p.
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