Myzopsetta ferruginea, Yellowtail flounder : fisheries, aquaculture

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Myzopsetta ferruginea (Storer, 1839)

Yellowtail flounder
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Common names from other countries

Limande à queue jaune, Limanda, Камбала желтохвостая (=лиманда желтохвостая), ... more

Classification / Names Nomi Comuni | Sinonimi | Catalog of Fishes(Genere, Specie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Pleuronectiformes (Flatfishes) > Pleuronectidae (Righteye flounders) > Pleuronectinae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / distribuzione batimetrica / distribution range Ecologia

marino demersale; distribuzione batimetrica 27 - 364 m (Ref. 5951), usually 36 - 91 m (Ref. 5951). Temperate; 54°N - 37°N

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Mappa dei ritrovamenti | Introduzioni | Faunafri

Northwest Atlantic: southern Labrador, Canada to Chesapeake Bay, USA.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturità: Lm 29.8  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 64.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 7251); peso massimo pubblicato: 1.5 kg (Ref. 9988); Età massima riportata: 12 anni (Ref. 6286)

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Adults inhabit sandy to muddy bottoms (Ref. 7251). Prefer depths of 37 to 82 m at temperatures of 3-5°C (Ref. 6263). Feed mainly on polychaete worms and amphipods, shrimps, isopods and other crustaceans and occasionally small fish such as sand lance and capelin (Ref. 12232). Batch spawner (Ref. 51846). Marketed fresh or frozen; eaten steamed, fried, microwaved and baked (Ref. 9988).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

Main reference Upload your references | Bibliografia | Coordinatore : Amaoka, Kunio | Collaboratori

Vinnikov, K.A., R.C. Thomson and T.A. Munroe, 2018. Revised classification of the righteye flounders (Teleostei: Pleuronectidae) based on multilocus phylogeny with complete taxon sampling. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 125:147-162. (Ref. 122998)

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

  Vulnerable (VU) (A2bcd); Date assessed: 12 February 2021

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Pesca: commerciale; Acquacoltura: sperimentale
FAO - pesca: landings; Publication: search | FIRMS - Stock assessments | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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E-book | Giuda pratica | Generatore frequenze di lunghezza | Strumento Parametri Biologici | Mappa dei ritrovamenti | Catch-MSY |

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Fonti Internet

AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: Genere, Specie | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - pesca: landings; Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | OceanAdapt | OneZoom | Open Tree of Life | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | RFE Identification | Socotra Atlas | TreeBase | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go, ricerca | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Fonte Biblio. 123201): 0.4 - 9.7, mean 2.6 °C (based on 134 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Fonte Biblio. 82804):  PD50 = 0.6250   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00692 (0.00608 - 0.00787), b=3.07 (3.03 - 3.11), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Fonte Biblio. 69278):  3.3   ±0.1 se; based on diet studies.
Resilienza (Fonte Biblio. 120179):  Basso, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 4.5 - 14 anni (rm=0.69; K=0.3; tm=2-6; tmax=12; Fec=737,000).
Prior r = 0.76, 95% CL = 0.50 - 1.14, Based on 3 full stock assessments.
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  High vulnerability (64 of 100). 🛈
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649):  High to very high vulnerability (75 of 100). 🛈
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Very high.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 13.9 [6.1, 57.2] mg/100g; Iron = 0.279 [0.138, 0.547] mg/100g; Protein = 16 [14, 19] %; Omega3 = 0.344 [0.167, 0.704] g/100g; Selenium = 13.5 [4.7, 50.6] μg/100g; VitaminA = 5.36 [1.02, 28.90] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.261 [0.139, 0.635] mg/100g (wet weight);