Diagnostic Description
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Silvery with faint, red crossbars; dead specimens almost white or purple.
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- Cristina V. Garilao
Life Cycle
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Also reported as a 'rudimentary hermaphrodite' or 'late gonochorist' where individuals posses an immature intersexual gonad but mature as either male or female fish with no eveidence of sexual reversal (Ref. 28504).
Morphology
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Dorsal spines (total): 11 - 12; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10 - 11; Analspines: 3; Analsoft rays: 8
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- Cristina V. Garilao
Biology
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Found over rocky substrates of coastal waters. Juveniles stay in sheltered areas of estuaries (Ref. 5213). Large specimens caught from the shore only when seas are rough (Ref. 3198). Marketed fresh, whole or dried.
Importance
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fisheries: minor commercial; price category: low; price reliability: reliable: based on ex-vessel price for this species
Cheimerius
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Cheimerius nufar, also known as the Santer seabream, is a species in the family Sparidae and is found in the Indian Ocean, from the Red Sea, down to the southern Cape coast in South Africa and as far east as India and Sri Lanka. This species is the only known member of the genus Cheimerius.[1] Unlike other members of the sparid family, C. nufar is gonochoric (does not change sex after birth).[2]
References
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^ Tanaka, F.; Iwatsuki, Y. (2015). "Amamiichthys, a new genus for the sparid fish Cheimerius matsubarai Akazaki 1962, and redescription of the species, with designation of a neotype". Zootaxa. 4007 (2): 195–206. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4007.2.3. PMID 26623801.
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^ Coscia, I; Chopelet, J; Waples, R S; Mann, B Q; Mariani, S (10 August 2016). "Sex change and effective population size: implications for population genetic studies in marine fish". Heredity. 117 (4): 251–258. doi:10.1038/hdy.2016.50. PMC 5026757. PMID 27507184. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
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Cheimerius: Brief Summary
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Cheimerius nufar, also known as the Santer seabream, is a species in the family Sparidae and is found in the Indian Ocean, from the Red Sea, down to the southern Cape coast in South Africa and as far east as India and Sri Lanka. This species is the only known member of the genus Cheimerius. Unlike other members of the sparid family, C. nufar is gonochoric (does not change sex after birth).
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Description
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Found over rocky substrates of coastal waters. Juveniles stay in sheltered areas of estuaries (Ref. 5213). Marketed fresh, whole or dried.
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023).
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