Prionotus stearnsi
Shortwing Searobin
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Scorpaeniformes (Lionfish, Stonefish and others)
Triglidae (Searobins)
Prionotus
Prionotus stearnsi (Shortwing Searobin)
Description
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Characters
Head rather large and compressed; cluster of small papillae on eyeball; small, rounded pectoral fins; snout relatively long and moderately depressed anteriorly; rostral projection poorly developed with crenate margin; mouth terminal and relatively large, with small bony knob at symphysis extending beyond upper jaw; nasal, supplemental preopercular, rostral, and infraorbital spines absent; villiform teeth in narrow bands in jaws, palatine, and vomer; gill rakers on first arch 9-11; head length 31%-36% SL, head depth 16%-20% SL, snout length 13%-16% SL, orbit diameter 5%-7% SL, interorbital width 3%-4% SL, upper jaw length 15%-17% SL, preopercular spine length 5%-6% SL, pectoral fin length 19%-27% SL, first free pectoral fin ray length 15%-19% SL, body depth 17%-21% SL; joined pectoral fin rays 12 or 13; first dorsal fin with 10 spines, second dorsal fin with 12 or 13 rays; anal fin rays 10-12; body covered with small ctenoid scales; chest completely scaled
Silvery black; pectoral fin and posterior section of caudal fin darkly pigmented
Distribution
Western Atlantic from North Carolina to French Guiana, including the entire Gulf of Mexico
Habitat Associations
Soft to semihard bottoms between 11 and 549 m, most common between 37 and 110 m
Soft to semihard bottoms
Biology
Shrimps, crabs, and ray-finned fishes; larger specimens consume a larger percentage of fishes
Maximum known size about 180 mm SL
Spawning takes place from November or December through May or June; matures between 80 and 115 mm TL
Inhabits offshore waters, mostly from 73-180 m depth. Minimum depth from Ref. 26912.
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2012-08-21. Resilience: High (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Commercial or Environmental Importance
Fisheries: bycatch.
References
Longley and Hildebrand 1941
Ginsburg 1950
Teague 1951
Lewis and Yerger 1976
Hoese and Moore 1977, 1998
Ross 1983
Uyeno and Sato 1983c
Robins and Ray 1986
Cervigón 1991, 1993a
Boschung 1992
Hoff 1992
Russell et al. 1992
Schaldach et al. 1997
Smith 1997
Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999
Richards and Miller 2002a
Cervigón, F., R. Cipriani, W. Fischer, L. Garibaldi, M. Hendrickx, A.J. Lemus, R. Márquez, J.M. Poutiers, G. Robaina and B. Rodriguez (1992) Fichas FAO de identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. Guía de campo de las especies comerciales marinas y de aquas salobres de la costa septentrional de Sur América. FAO, Rome. 513 p. Preparado con el financiamento de la Comisión de Comunidades Europeas y de NORAD.
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.
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.
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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