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Common names: Dorado, Greater amberjack, Hanapos
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Importance: highly commercial | Ref:
Aquaculture: commercial | Ref:
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Museum: Western Calatagan, Batangas, UPZM 5341 (Ref. 6956). Also Ref. 3397.
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: De la Paz, R.M., N. Aragones and D. Agulto, 1988
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Sériole couronnée, Pez de limón, 杜氏鰤(高体鰤), ... more

Classificação / Names Nomes comuns | Sinônimos | Catalog of Fishes(Gênero, Espécies) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Carangiformes (Jacks) > Carangidae (Jacks and pompanos) > Naucratinae
Etymology: Seriola: Latin word diminutive with the meaning of a large earthenware pot (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Risso.

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

marinhas associadas(os) a recifes; oceanódromo (Ref. 51243); intervalo de profundidade 1 - 385 m (Ref. 11441), usually 18 - 72 m (Ref. 9626). Subtropical; 49°N - 36°S, 98°W - 128°E

Distribuição Países | Áreas da FAO | Ecossistemas | Ocorrências | Point map | Introduções | Faunafri

Circumglobal. Tropical and warm temperate seas. Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, Persian Gulf, southern Japan and the Hawaiian Islands, south to New Caledonia; Mariana and Caroline islands in Micronesia. Western Atlantic: Bermuda (Ref. 26938), Nova Scotia, Canada to Brazil; also from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea (Ref. 9626). Eastern Atlantic: British coast (vagrant) to Morocco and the Mediterranean. Distribution in eastern central Atlantic along the African coast is not well established due to past confusion with Seriola carpenteri (Ref. 7097).

Comprimento de primeira maturação / Tamanho / Peso / Idade

Maturity: L_m 90.8, range 80 - 127 cm
Max length : 190 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 3397); common length : 100.0 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 3197); peso máx. publicado: 80.6 kg (Ref. 3287); idade máx. registrada: 15 anos (Ref. 113943)

Descrição suscinta Chaves de identificação | Morfologia | Morfometria

Espinhos dorsais (total) : 8; Raios dorsais (total) : 29 - 35; Espinhos anais: 3; Raios anais : 18 - 22. Bluish grey or olivaceous above, silvery white below; amber stripe along midside of body; fins dusky (Ref. 3197). Second dorsal and anal fins with low anterior lobe (Ref. 26938). Species of Seriola lack scutes (Ref. 37816).

Adults found in deep seaward reefs; occasionally entering coastal bays. They feed primarily on fishes such as the bigeye scad, also on invertebrates (Ref. 4233). Small juveniles associate with floating plants or debris in oceanic and offshore waters. Juveniles form small schools or solitary (Ref. 5213). Eggs are pelagic (Ref. 4233). Utilized fresh and frozen; eaten pan-fried, broiled and baked (Ref. 9987). Reported to cause ciguatera in some areas (Ref. 26938).

Ciclo de vida ou comportamento de acasalamento Maturities | Reprodução | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larvas

Spawning happens during the summer, in areas near the coast. Embryo development lasts about 40 hours at 23° and larval development 31-36 days. Egg size 1.9 mm, larval at hatching 2.9 mm.

Referência principal Upload your references | Referências | Coordenador : Smith-Vaniz, William F. | Colaboradores

Paxton, J.R., D.F. Hoese, G.R. Allen and J.E. Hanley, 1989. Pisces. Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 7. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 665 p. (Ref. 7300)

Status na Lista Vermelha da UICN (Ref. 130435)

Segura ou pouco preocupante (LC) ; Date assessed: 07 November 2013

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)