Ephippion guttifer, Prickly puffer : fisheries, gamefish

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Ephippion guttifer (Bennett, 1831)

Prickly puffer
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> Tetraodontiformes (Puffers and filefishes) > Tetraodontidae (Puffers) > Tetraodontinae
Etymology: Ephippion: Greek, ephippion, horse cloth, saddle (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Bennett.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / rango de profundidad / distribution range Ecología

marino; salobre demersal; rango de profundidad 10 - 100 m (Ref. 10001). Subtropical; 44°N - 13°S, 18°W - 14°E (Ref. 128784)

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Eastern Atlantic: Gibraltar and extreme western Mediterranean southward along the entire west coast of Africa to Angola, near Benguela.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 80.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 7059); common length : 55.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 2683); peso máximo publicado: 4.3 kg (Ref. 4699)

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Common in shallow coastal waters, also in estuaries (Ref. 2683), bays and lagoons, as well as in offshore trawling stations. Feeds on crabs, echinoids and mollusks (Ref. 10001). Occurs over hard substrate (Ref. 5377).

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

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

Shipp, R.L., 1990. Tetraodontidae. p. 1069-1072. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 7464)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 10 June 2011

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Pesquerías: comercial; pesca deportiva: si
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Referencia 123201): 19.2 - 27.9, mean 25.7 °C (based on 86 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Referencia 82804):  PD50 = 1.0000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01622 (0.00726 - 0.03621), b=2.92 (2.74 - 3.10), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278):  3.6   ±0.53 se; based on food items.
Resiliencia (Referencia 120179):  Medio, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 1.4-4.4 años (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate to high vulnerability (52 of 100). 🛈
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Very high.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 51.9 [17.6, 122.7] mg/100g; Iron = 0.96 [0.54, 1.98] mg/100g; Protein = 19.1 [17.0, 21.3] %; Omega3 = 0.374 [0.175, 0.735] g/100g; Selenium = 30.7 [16.8, 64.2] μg/100g; VitaminA = 8.44 [3.70, 19.02] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.725 [0.529, 1.009] mg/100g (wet weight);