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Epigonus telescopus (Risso, 1810)

Black cardinal fish
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United Kingdom country information

Common names: Bigeye, Black cardinal fish, Black cardinal fish
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: scarce (very unlikely) | Ref: Swaby, S.E. and G.W. Potts, 1990
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Uses: no uses
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Wheeler, A., 1992
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Classification / Names Nombres comunes | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Especie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Acropomatiformes (Oceanic basses) > Epigonidae (Deepwater cardinalfishes)
Etymology: Epigonus: Greek, epi = over, in front + Greek, gonio = angle (Ref. 45335).
  More on author: Risso.

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

marino batidemersal; rango de profundidad 75 - 1305 m (Ref. 4738), usually 300 - 800 m (Ref. 4738).   Deep-water; 65°N - 43°S

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North Atlantic: Iceland to the Canary Islands and Corner Seamounts. One specimen off North America (Ref. 7321). Southeast Atlantic, Indian and Southwest Pacific: Walvis Ridge off southwestern Africa to New Zealand.

Length at first maturity / Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm 56.0  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 75.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 5755); common length : 55.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 9258); edad máxima reportada: 104 años (Ref. 39263)

Short description Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría

Espinas dorsales (total) : 7 - 8; Radios blandos dorsales (total) : 9 - 11; Espinas anales: 2; Radios blandos anales: 9. No opercular spines. 8 spines on first dorsal fin (Ref. 31632). Snout blunt, eye large. Mouth large, lower jaw equaling or slightly protruding beyond upper jaw. Pyloric caeca 21-34. Brown-violet or black, iridescent in life.

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Adults benthic or benthopelagic on the continental slopes; juveniles pelagic (Ref. 7321). Found on soft bottoms (Ref. 27121). Non-territorial. Carnivorous, feed on small fishes and planktonic invertebrates.

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Maugé, L.A. and G.F. Mayer, 1990. Apogonidae. p. 714-718. 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). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 7321)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 11 July 2012

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless




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Pesquerías: comercial
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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 4.6 - 13.8, mean 8.9 (based on 755 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01950 (0.01150 - 0.03306), b=2.98 (2.83 - 3.13), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Nivel trófico (Ref. 69278):  3.6   ±0.3 se; based on diet studies.
Resiliencia (Ref. 120179):  Muy bajo, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo superior a 14 años (tmax=104).
Prior r = 0.14, 95% CL = 0.09 - 0.21, Based on 1 data-limited stock assessment.
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  High to very high vulnerability (69 of 100).
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649):  Low to moderate vulnerability (32 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Medium.