Stereolepis gigas

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Family : Wreckfishes ; Occurs on rock bottoms ; near shore , outside kelp beds and along drop-offs [1]. Large specimens usually found deeper than 30 m , small ones over sand and in kelp beds mostly from 12-21 m[1]. Aggregates for spawning in summer (Ref. 2850). Lives to at least age 70 years[1].

Critically Endangered

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,196 meters (0 to -17,047 feet).[2]

Biome: Marine .

Ecology: Juveniles are usually found in and around kelp beds as well as sandy bottom areas at depths 12–21 m (Crooke 1992), whereas adults are usually found deeper than 30 m and they tend to inhabit rocky bottoms where kelp beds are nearby (Eschmeyer et al. 1983).

Reproductive Biology
The fish mature at 7 to 10 years (Domeier 2001). The maximum size of male/unsexed giant sea bass is 250 cm TL (IGFA 2001). Spawning aggregations are formed and remain together for one or two months over the period of June to September (Crooke 1992).[3].

List of Habitats :

•     9     Marine Neritic   
  
•     9.7     Marine Neritic - Macroalgal/Kelp   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Author and year[4].

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 18-Jul-1994

Giant sea bass was originally assigned to the grouper family , Serranidae, but was later placed in a new family called the Percichthyidae (Domeier 2001).[3].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Stereolepis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species and subspecies in this genus:

S. doederleini (Striped Jewfish) · S. gigas (California Black Sea Bass)

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Further Reading

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• A guide to the study of fishes, New York, H. Holt, 1905. url .
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Notes

Contributors

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• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
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• Sedberry, George (from FishBase).

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:

• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 139158
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-30676
• Fishbase Species ID: 3310
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13833609
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 167918
• IUCN ID: 243827
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 8949

Footnotes

1. Eschmeyer, W.N., E.S. Herald and H. Hammann (1983). A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 336 p. [back]
2. Mean = 281.440 meters (923.360 feet), Standard Deviation = 568.700 based on 9,098 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
3. Cornish, A. 2004. Stereolepis gigas. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 February 2012. [back]
4. Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea and W.B. Scott (1991). Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Pub. (20):183 p. [back]

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