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Common names: Fāng tóu yú, Rì běn fāng tóu yú, 日本方头鱼
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Museum: USNM 86437 (Ref. 8991).
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Main Ref: Hayashi, Y., 1976
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Red tilefish, Horse-head fish, Horse head, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Latilidae (Deepwater tilefishes)
Etymology: Branchiostegus: Greek, brangchia = gills + Greek, stego = roof, to cover (Ref. 45335).

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

Marine; demersal; depth range 30 - 200 m (Ref. 8991). Tropical; 40°N - 15°N, 105°E - 144°E

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Western Pacific: Central Honshu to the South China Sea. Also reported as far south as the Arafura Sea (Ref. 9819).

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Maturity: L_m ?, range 21 - ? cm
Max length : 46.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 40637); common length : 35.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 9137); max. published weight: 1.3 kg (Ref. 40637); max. reported age: 12 years (Ref. 5878)

Found in the sublittoral zone on sandy mud bottoms (Ref. 11230). Most common of Japanese tilefishes (Ref. 559).

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Dooley, J.K., 1978. Systematics and biology of the tilefishes (Perciformes: Branchiostegidae and Malacanthidae) with descriptions of two new species. NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS Circ. No. 411:1-78. (Ref. 8991)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 27 January 2009

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 13.4 - 23.4, mean 18.8 (based on 153 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01072 (0.00537 - 0.02137), b=3.09 (2.90 - 3.28), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.4 ±0.45 se; based on food items.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.18-0.36; tmax=12).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Moderate vulnerability (35 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Very high.

Branchiostegus japonicus (Houttuyn, 1782)