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Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789)

Silver-cheeked toadfish
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> Tetraodontiformes (Puffers and filefishes) > Tetraodontidae (Puffers) > Tetraodontinae
Etymology: Lagocephalus: Greek, lagos = hare + Greek, kephale = head (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Gmelin.

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

marino asociado a arrecife; rango de profundidad 18 - 100 m (Ref. 11441). Tropical; 40°N - 40°S, 16°E - 124°W

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Indo-West Pacific (Ref. 4919). Lessepsian migrant to the Mediterranean Sea (Ref. 55043).

Length at first maturity / Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm 43.3  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 110 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 125962); common length : 40.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 5450); peso máximo publicado: 9.0 kg (Ref. 125962)

Short description Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría

Espinas dorsales (total) : 0; Radios blandos dorsales (total) : 10 - 13; Espinas anales: 0; Radios blandos anales: 8 - 12. Greenish with brown or black spots above; silver band from mouth to caudal fin; belly white; silver blotch in front of eye; pectoral base black (Ref. 4919).

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Inhabits offshore reefs (Ref. 9563). Sandy bottom (Ref. 95646). Caught by trammel net (Ref. 96695). This species contains tetrodotoxin which may be a source for food poisoning and the Israel Poison Information center registered 13 cases in December 2008 where all were related to the consumption of this fish (Ref. 118670).

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

Oviparous (Ref. 205).

Main reference Upload your references | Referencias | Coordinador : Matsuura, Keiichi | Colaboradores

Masuda, H., K. Amaoka, C. Araga, T. Uyeno and T. Yoshino, 1984. The fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Vol. 1. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, Japan. 437 p. (text). (Ref. 559)

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

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 08 June 2011

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Poisonous to eat (Ref. 559)





Human uses

Pesquerías: sin interés; Acuario: Comercial
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AFORO (otoliths) | Alien/Invasive Species database | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | BOLDSystems | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: Género, Especie | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GenBank: genome, nucleotide | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | MitoFish | Bases de datos nacionales | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | Árbol de la vida | Wikipedia: Go, búsqueda | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Expediente Zoológico

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 21.6 - 28.6, mean 27.3 °C (based on 762 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5005   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01318 (0.01094 - 0.01589), b=2.87 (2.82 - 2.92), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245).
Nivel trófico (Ref. 69278):  3.7   ±0.4 se; based on diet studies.
Resiliencia (Ref. 120179):  Medio, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 1.4-4.4 años (tmax=7; tm=3; K=0.099-0.3;).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate vulnerability (40 of 100).
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 18.1 [7.7, 40.9] mg/100g; Iron = 0.452 [0.237, 0.911] mg/100g; Protein = 18.9 [16.7, 21.1] %; Omega3 = 0.128 [0.060, 0.249] g/100g; Selenium = 50.1 [26.9, 98.3] μg/100g; VitaminA = 53.4 [20.0, 144.7] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.9 [0.6, 1.3] mg/100g (wet weight);