Description: A slender grenadier, with a short acute snout, small mouth, and a small chin barbel. Scales with broad spinules, narrow in smaller specimens, shield-shaped in larger ones. Blue or violet coloured, with dusky mouth; outer margins of the gill cavity black.
Global Distribution: North and Central Atlantic and the Mediterranean. View Map
BIOLOGICAL FEATURES
Size: Maximum length 36.0 cm (total length); common length 25.0 cm (TL).
Growth type: Negative allometric (Torres et al. 2012).
von Bertallanfy growth parameters:
Reproduction:
Maturity: 4.5 cm
Behavioural ecology:
Population structure & migrations:
ECOLOGICAL FEATURES
Depth range: FishBase: 200 - 2320 m, usually 200 - 1000 m.
Habitat: Benthopelagic along the slope.
Feeding habits: Feeds on benthic as well as pelagic invertebrates such as mysids, amphipods, shrimps, copepods, isopods, ostracods and polychaete worms.
Trophic level: FishBase: 3.3
FISHERIES
Commercial interest: Sometimes taken as by-catch.
Conservation status: Global: Not evaluated.
Europe: Least concern.
Nutritional information & food safety:
REFERENCES
Brito A., Pascual P.J., Falcón J.M., Sancho A., González G. (2002). Peces de las islas Canarias. Catálogo comentado e ilustrado. Francisco Lemos Editor, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 418 pp.
Cohen D.M., Inada T., Iwamoto T., Scialabba N. (1990). FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 10. Gadiform fishes of the world (Family Gadiformes). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cods, hakes, grenadiers and other gadiform fishes known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, Vol. 10. FAO, Rome, 442 pp.
Hureau J.-C., ed. (1984-1985). Fishes of the North-Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO. Accessed through: Marine Species Identification Portal. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://species-identification.org (2014).
IUCN (2014). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. www.iucnredlist.org
Nieto A., Ralph G.M., Comeros-Raynal M.T., Kemp J., GarcÃa Criado M., Allen D.J., Dulvy N.K., Walls R.H.L., Russell B., Pollard D., GarcÃa S., Craig M., Collette B.B., Pollom R., Biscoito M., Labbish Chao N., Abella A., Afonso P., Ãlvarez H., Carpenter K.E., Clò S., Cook R., Costa M.J., Delgado J., Dureuil M., Ellis J.R., Farrell E.D., Fernandes P., Florin A-B., Fordham S., Fowle, S., Gil de Sola L., Gil Herrera J., Goodpaster A., Harvey M., Heessen H., Herler J., Jung A., Karmovskaya E., Keskin C., Knudsen S.W., Kobyliansky S., KovaÄić M., Lawson J.M., Lorance P., McCully Phillips S., Munroe T., Nedreaas K., Nielsen J., Papaconstantinou C., Polidoro B., Pollock C.M., Rijnsdorp A.D., Sayer C., Scott J., Serena F., Smith-Vaniz W.F., Soldo A., Stump E., Williams J.T. (2015). Europen Red List of Marine Fishes. IUCN and European Union, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 90 pp.
Torres M.A., Ramos F., Sobrino I. (2012). Length–weight relationships of 76 fish species from the Gulf of Cadiz (SW Spain). Fisheries Research, 127: 171-175.
