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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: live export: yes;
Comments: Photographed in Coron Bay, Busuanga, Palawan, at about 20 m, by D. Harasti on 20 March 2006 from on the WWII Japanese wreck ‘Olympia-maru’ (ca 5 cm TL). It is the first record of the species from the Northern Hemisphere and suggests that this species is more widely distributed in the central western Pacific Ocean than currently known (Ref. 77064)..
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Main Ref: Motomura, H., P. Last and J.W. Johnson, 2008
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Classification / Names

Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) > Scorpaeniformes (Scorpionfishes and flatheads) > Tetrarogidae (Wasp fishes)
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Main reference

Motomura, H., P. Last and J.W. Johnson. 2008. (Ref. 77064)
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Size / Weight / Age

Max length : 14.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 90102)

Environment

Marine; benthopelagic; depth range 12 - 65 m (Ref. 90102)

Climate / Range

Tropical, preferred ?; 21°N - 11°S

Distribution

Indo-West Pacific: Australia to the Philippines, including eastern New Guinea on the basis of collected specimens.
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Short description

Dorsal spines (total): 13; Dorsal soft rays (total): 8; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 6. A species of waspfish with the following characters: gill rakers 14-17 (mode 15); posterior tip of depressed pelvic-fin spine often reaching the anus; relatively short length of upper-jaw, 16.7-18.9% of SL, mean 17.6%; depth of maxilla relatively low (5.1-7.2% of SL, mean 5.9%); longest anal-fin soft ray relatively long (23.8-30.9% of SL, mean 28.8%); relatively small, broad and horizontally oriented first blotch (mean width 12.5% of SL, mean height 10.0% of SL), lateral line running through upper one-third of blotch; extremely small, like a dot, second blotch, mean width 1.2% of SL, mean height 1.5% of SL, located at base of first dorsal-fin soft ray, not on fin membrane; no third blotch (Ref. 77064).

Often occurs on flat, relatively open bottoms in 12-65 m, usually observed on turbid inshore coral reefs (Ref 90102).

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 115185)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Estimates of some properties based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82805)
PD₅₀ = 0.7500 many relatives (e.g. carps) 0.5 - 2.0 few relatives (e.g. lungfishes)

Trophic Level (Ref. 69278)
3.2 ±0.3 se; Based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resilience (Ref. 69278)
Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.)

Vulnerability (Ref. 59153)
Moderate vulnerability (35 of 100)

Price category (Ref. 80766)

Liocranium pleurostigma (Weber, 1913)