Diagnostic Description
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tarjonnut Fishbase
Body slightly compressed. The head is small; eyes large, diameter greater than snout length. Color is yellow-fawn, with irregular oblique brown blotches on the sides. The operculum is silver-black; anus and gill cavity black; belly stippled black; caudal fin base and inner ventral fin rays black.
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Morphology
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tarjonnut Fishbase
Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10 - 11; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 8 - 10
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Trophic Strategy
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tarjonnut Fishbase
Found on the continental shelf and slope (Ref. 75154).
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Biology
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tarjonnut Fishbase
Found on the continental shelf and upper slope over mud and clay bottom. Catch data indicate a schooling habit. Feeds mainly on bottom-living invertebrates. Also known to feed on pelagic crustaceans like euphausiids, decapods and mysids (Ref. 27637). A hermaphroditic species. Marketed fresh and sometimes made into fishmeal (Ref. 6688). Young are pelagic, living near the surface, the adults are demersal, living between 50 and 1000 m depth (Ref. 47377).
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Importance
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tarjonnut Fishbase
fisheries: minor commercial; price category: unknown; price reliability:
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