Johnius taiwanensis

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Johnius taiwanensis Chao, Chang, Chen, Guo, Lin, Liou, Shen & Liu, 2019

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Sciaenidae (Drums or croakers)
Etymology: taiwanensis: Named for the country of its type locality, first recognized from specimens collected from Southwest Taiwan, and commonly found along both sides of the Taiwan Strait..

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

Marine; freshwater; brackish; benthopelagic. Subtropical

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Northwest Pacific: Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 18.6 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 121822)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 10 - 12; Dorsal soft rays (total): 24-28; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 7 - 8. This species is distinguished from other species of the subgenus J. (Johnieops) by lacking an enlarged outer row teeth on the upper jaw; unique body color pattern of a grayish dorsal part divided by a distinct line from the whitish ventral one third; with a black dot on uppermost axilla of pectoral fin (vs. absent in other congeners except J. carouna); second anal-fin spine less than 30% of head length (vs. 35% in J. carouna); with cavernous but firm head and firmly attached scales (vs. head strongly cavernous and soft, and the scales on the body fall off easily in J. trewavasae, also with very short, tubercle-like gill rakers and a thicker second anal-fin spine); produces a sound that is unique amongst sciaenids in the coastal waters of Taiwan (Ref. 121822).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Chao, N.L., C.-W. Chang, M.-H. Chen, C.-C. Guo, B.-A. Lin, Y.-Y. Liou, K.-N. Shen and M. Liu, 2019. Johnius taiwanensis, a new species of Sciaenidae from the Taiwan Strait, with a key to Johnius species from Chinese waters. Zootaxa 4651(2):259-270. (Ref. 121822)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 30 July 2019

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = No PD50 data   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00891 (0.00410 - 0.01937), b=3.08 (2.91 - 3.25), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.4   ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (13 of 100).