Nemipterus japonicus, Japanese threadfin bream : fisheries

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Nemipterus japonicus (Bloch, 1791)

Japanese threadfin bream
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Iran territory information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: commercial | Ref: Valinassab, T., R. Daryanabard, R. Dehghani and G.J. Pierce, 2006
Aquaculture: | Ref:
Regulations: | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Reported from the Bushehr coastal waters in the Persian Gulf (Ref. 93975) and Oman Sea (Ref. 47533). Also Ref. 47613.
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Territory Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/ir.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Russell, B.C., 1990
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Cohana japonaise, Baga japonesa, أبرميس زعانف سُليكية ياباني, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Nemipteridae (Threadfin breams, Whiptail breams)
Etymology: Nemipterus: Greek, nema, -atos = filament + Greek, pteron = wing, fin (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Bloch.

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

Marine; demersal; non-migratory; depth range 5 - 80 m (Ref. 9785). Tropical; 34°N - 11°S, 31°E - 133°E (Ref. 3810)

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Indo-Pacific.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm 18.3  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 34.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 124816); common length : 25.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 5450); max. published weight: 596.00 g (Ref. 1448); max. reported age: 8 years (Ref. 1448)

Short description Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 10; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 7. This species is distinguished by the following characters: lower margin of eye above a line from tip of snout to upper base of pectoral fins; a line drawn up from the posterior edge of suborbital reaching the dorsal profile 2 to 4 scale rows before origin of dorsal fin; pectoral fins very long, 1-1.3 in HL, reaching to or just beyond level of origin of anal fin; pelvic fins moderately long, 1.2-1.6 in HL, reaching to or just beyond anus; caudal fin moderately forked, upper lobe slightly longer than lower and produced into a short or moderately long filament. Colour: upper part of body pinkish, becoming silvery below; top of head behind eye with a golden sheen; 11-12 pale golden-yellow stripes along body from behind head to base of caudal fin; a prominent red-suffused yellow blotch below origin of lateral line; dorsal fin whitish, margin of fin yellow, edged with red; a pale lemon stripe near base of dorsal fin, this stripe narrow anteriorly and widening on posterior part of fin; anal fin whitish with pale lemon broken lines or scribblings over most of fin; caudal fin pink, upper tip and filament yellow (Ref. 9785).
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal; Cross section: oval.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Very abundant in coastal waters, found on mud or sand bottoms, usually in schools. Feeds mainly on small fishes, crustaceans, mollusks (mainly cephalopods), polychaetes and echinoderms. Marketed mainly fresh, but also frozen, steamed, dried-salted, dry-smoked, fermented or made into fish balls and fish meal.

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Females predominate at small sizes and males at larger sizes, due to faster growth rate in males (Ref. 6254).

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Russell, B.C., 1990. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 12. Nemipterid fishes of the world. (Threadfin breams, whiptail breams, monocle breams, dwarf monocle breams, and coral breams). Family Nemipteridae. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of nemipterid species known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(12):149p. Rome: FAO. (Ref. 3810)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 28 June 2018

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 24.7 - 29.2, mean 28.4 °C (based on 1310 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01413 (0.01234 - 0.01617), b=2.96 (2.93 - 2.99), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  4.2   ±0.81 se; based on food items.
Generation time: 1.9 (1.7 - 2.1) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 65 growth studies.
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.29-1.06; tm= 0.5-1.4; tmax=8; Fec = 13,900).
Prior r = 0.58, 95% CL = 0.38 - 0.86, Based on 1 full stock assessment.
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (21 of 100). 🛈
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649):  High vulnerability (57 of 100). 🛈
Price category (Ref. 80766):   High.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 452 [102, 857] mg/100g; Iron = 1.47 [0.45, 3.98] mg/100g; Protein = 18 [16, 20] %; Omega3 = 0.276 [0.133, 0.605] g/100g; Selenium = 40.4 [15.7, 122.5] μg/100g; VitaminA = 13.5 [3.1, 72.7] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.679 [0.387, 2.339] mg/100g (wet weight); based on nutrient studies.