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> Perciformes/Cottoidei (Sculpins) > Hexagrammidae (Greenlings) > Hexagramminae
Etymology: Hexagrammos: Greek, exa = six + greek, gramma = letter,signal (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Pallas.

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

marino demersal; rango de profundidad ? - 46 m (Ref. 2850). Temperate; 66°N - 32°N

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Eastern Pacific: Amchitka Island, in the Aleutian chain (Ref. 27436) to La Jolla, southern California, USA.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 61.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 27436); peso máximo publicado: 2.1 kg (Ref. 27436); edad máxima reportada: 18 años (Ref. 55701)

Short description Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría

Espinas dorsales (total) : 21 - 22; Radios blandos dorsales (total) : 24; Espinas anales: 1; Radios blandos anales: 23 - 24. Caudal broadly rounded or truncate.

Occurs in rocky inshore areas, common on kelp beds, also on sand bottoms (Ref. 2850). Feeds on crustaceans, polychaete worms, brittle stars, mollusks, and small fishes (Ref. 28499). Young are food of steelheads and salmon (Ref. 6885). Frequently caught by shore and skiff fishers and speared by divers (Ref. 2850).

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

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Eschmeyer, W.N., E.S. Herald and H. Hammann, 1983. A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America. Boston (MA, USA): Houghton Mifflin Company. xii+336 p. (Ref. 2850)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 02 December 2019

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

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Hexagrammos decagrammus (Pallas, 1810)