Environment / Climate / Range
Ecology
Marine; brackish; demersal; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); depth range 30 - ? m (Ref. 2058). Subtropical, preferred ?; 47°N - 28°N, 6°W - 42°E
Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, and Sea of Azov.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 29.9 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 115022); max. reported age: 5 years (Ref. 4696)
Benthic, inshore, brackish water, estuaries and lagoons, on mud and eel-grass meadows. Commercial in the Black Sea and in Sivash (Ref. 2058). Occasionally recorded in freshwater, but there are no documented records of actual occurrence in European freshwaters (Ref. 59043).
Iteroparous, females produce more than one batch of eggs within the breeding season (Ref. 50965).
Miller, P.J., 1979. Gobiidae. p. 483-515. In J.C. Hureau and Th. Monod (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and of the Mediterranean (CLOFNAM). UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1. (Ref. 4345)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 115185)
CITES (Ref. 94142)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: commercial
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Estimates of some properties based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82805): PD
50 = 1.0000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00813 (0.00495 - 0.01335), b=3.08 (2.94 - 3.22), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref.
93245).
Trophic Level (Ref.
69278): 3.2 ±0.3 se; Based on diet studies.
Resilience (Ref.
69278): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (tm=2-3; Fec>5,000).
Prior r = 0.55, 2 SD range = 0.29 - 1.04, log(r) = -0.6, SD log(r) = 0.32, Based on: 1 K, 2 tgen, 1 tmax, 4 Fec records
Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Moderate to high vulnerability (45 of 100) .
