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Umbrina canosai Berg, 1895

Argentine croaker
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Sciaenidae (Drums or croakers)
Etymology: Umbrina: Latin, umbra, -ae = shadow, in the sense of phantom; due to its quick movements (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Don Sabas Canosa was a ‘preparater’ and later conservator at the National Museum of Montevideo, Uruguay. He was responsible for taxidermy and other forms of preservation of specimens. He also collected for the museum. (Ref. 128868), visit book page.

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Berg, C.

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

Marine; brackish; demersal; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); depth range ? - 200 m (Ref. 47377), usually 10 - 100 m (Ref. 27363). Subtropical; 31°S - 42°S, 62°W - 49°W (Ref. 54933)

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Southwest Atlantic: Cabo de São Tomé, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Bonaerensis, Argentina.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm 15.9, range 17 - ? cm
Max length : 53.3 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 39376); common length : 37.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 7025); max. reported age: 26 years (Ref. 7025)

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Dorsal spines (total): 11; Dorsal soft rays (total): 21 - 25; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 7 - 8. Upper part of body with many dark longitudinal stripes; no well defined dark spots at bases of pectoral fins (Ref. 27363).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Especially abundant at about 100 m depth (Ref. 27363). Found over sand and mud bottoms (Ref. 47377).

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Haimovici, M., 1988. Cohort analysis on the Argentine croaker (Umbrina canosai) exploited in South Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Publ. Com. Tec. Mixta Frente Marit. Argent. Urug. 4:33-40. (Ref. 7415)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

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

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Fisheries: highly commercial
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 8 - 19.8, mean 14.8 °C (based on 242 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00891 (0.00731 - 0.01086), b=3.08 (3.06 - 3.10), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.9   ±0.57 se; based on food items.
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.26-0.27).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low to moderate vulnerability (32 of 100).
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649):  Moderate to high vulnerability (49 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Low.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 87.1 [46.8, 175.5] mg/100g; Iron = 1.14 [0.60, 2.03] mg/100g; Protein = 19.7 [18.6, 20.8] %; Omega3 = 0.415 [0.243, 0.670] g/100g; Selenium = 28.3 [14.6, 54.5] μg/100g; VitaminA = 18.5 [6.5, 62.6] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.746 [0.523, 1.092] mg/100g (wet weight);