Fivebeard rockling
| Ciliata mustela (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||
| Family: | Gaidropsaridae (Rocklings) |
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| Order: | Gadiformes | |||
| Class: | Teleostei | |||
| English name: | Fivebeard rockling | |||
| Distribution: | Northeast Atlantic: Lisbon north to Finnmark, around the British Isles, in the Skagerrak and Kattegat and Iceland. | |||
| Adult biology: | A resident intertidal species with homing behavior (Ref. 32612). Generally close to the shore, not descending to great depths beyond the limits of the distribution of green algae (20 m), preferring rock bottoms but also living on sandy, muddy, and shell gravel bottoms. Feed mainly on crustaceans, sometimes also on algae, polychaetes, gastropods and occasionally, small fish. Occurs in temperatures ranging from 8 to 24°C (Ref. 4944). | |||
| Diagnosis: | Pelvic fins considerably longer and with longer pigmented parts in C. mustela than in C. septrionalis at comparable sizes. In larvae of 6.5-7 mm, a lateral melanophoresline starts to develop. . See also LARVAE table. | |||
| Climate Zone: | temperate; 72°N - 38°N | |||
| Main Ref: | Demir, N.. 1986. (Ref. 75) | |||
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| Modified by: Luna, Susan M. |
Entered by: Froese, Rainer |
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