Rypticus bistrispinus, Freckled soapfish

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Rypticus bistrispinus (Mitchill, 1818)

Freckled soapfish
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Perciformes/Serranoidei (Groupers) > Grammistidae (Soapfishes)
Etymology: Rypticus: Greek, ryptikos, -e, -on = easy to wash (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Mitchill.

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

Marine; reef-associated. Tropical; - 23°S

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Western Atlantic: southern Florida, USA and Bahamas to the Antilles and Brazil (Ref. 5521).

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 15.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 7251)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dark red-brown above; side pale yellow or cream, with small, dark red-brown spots; belly creamy yellow. 3 spines on vertical edge of preopercle (Ref. 26938).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

A solitary species (Ref. 26340) inhabiting sandy bottom strewn with rocks (Ref. 5521). Rarely observed on reefs (Ref. 13442). Like other soapfishes, it has special skin glands that produce an irritating, mildly toxic slime (Ref. 26938).

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Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray, 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref. 7251)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 23 August 2012

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 24 - 28.1, mean 27.3 °C (based on 703 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5010   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01148 (0.00451 - 0.02922), b=3.06 (2.84 - 3.28), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.7   ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 79 [43, 154] mg/100g; Iron = 0.682 [0.353, 1.179] mg/100g; Protein = 18.5 [16.7, 20.2] %; Omega3 = 0.185 [0.114, 0.294] g/100g; Selenium = 26.4 [14.5, 49.4] μg/100g; VitaminA = 146 [48, 490] μg/100g; Zinc = 1.37 [0.92, 2.00] mg/100g (wet weight);