Malta country information

Common names: Makku
Occurrence: native
Salinity: brackish
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Also Ref. 232.
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Country Information: httpss://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/mt.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Lanfranco, G.G., 1996
National Database:

Classification / Names

Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) > Perciformes (Perch-likes) > Gobiidae (Gobies) > Gobiinae
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Common names from other countries

Nonnat, Chanquete, Nonnat, ... more

Main reference

Maugé, L.A. 1986. (Ref. 4343)
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Size / Weight / Age

Max length : 7.9 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 26260); max. reported age: 1 years (Ref. 232)

Length at first maturity
L_m 3.8, range 3 - ? cm

Environment

Marine; brackish; pelagic-neritic; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); depth range 0 - 97 m (Ref. 57814), usually 5 - 80 m (Ref. 57814)

Climate / Range

Subtropical; 13°C - 16°C (Ref. 57814), preferred ?; 70°N - 25°N, 13°W - 42°E

Distribution

Atlantic Ocean: Trondheim to Morocco. Also known from the Mediterranean including Black Sea and the Azov Sea (Ref. 57814).
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Short description

Dorsal spines (total): 4 - 6; Dorsal soft rays (total): 113; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 11 - 15. Transparent body, more or less reddish, with chromatophores along bases of median fins and on head. Vertebrae 26-28 (Ref. 232). Males with longer dorsal and anal fins than females (Ref. 35388).

Benthic and free swimming (Ref. 92840). A neotenic, pelagic species inhabiting inshore and estuarine waters, over sand, mud and eel-grass (Ref. 4343). Adults feed on zooplankton, especially copepods, cirripede larvae and mysids (Ref. 4343). They spawn in summer in empty bivalve shells (Ref. 35388). Probably migrate to deeper water to spawn during summer (Ref. 57814). Adults die after breeding (Ref. 4696) which does not qualify as a manifestation of semelparity but abbreviate iteroparity according to a recent study (Ref. 81039). Eggs are pear-shaped (Ref. 4696).

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 115185)

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)
PD₅₀ = 1.0000 many relatives (e.g. carps) 0.5 - 2.0 few relatives (e.g. lungfishes)

Trophic Level (Ref. 69278)
3.1 ±0.28 se; Based on food items.

Resilience (Ref. 69278)
High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K>0.3; tm=1; tmax=1; Fec = 935)

Vulnerability (Ref. 59153)
Low vulnerability (10 of 100)

Price category (Ref. 80766)
Very high

Aphia minuta (Risso, 1810)