Sarda sarda Atlantic bonito

Sarda sarda is commonly referred to as Atlantic bonito. Difficulty in the aquarium: Pas pour l'aquarium!. Toxicity: Has a poison harmful to health.

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AphiaID:: 127021

Scientific:: Sarda sarda
German:: Atlantischer Bonito
English:: Atlantic Bonito

Category:: Thons

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scombridae (Family) > Sarda (Genus) > sarda (Species)
Initial determination:: (Bloch, ), 1793

Occurrence:: Straße von Gibraltar, Benin, the Black Sea, Angola, Argentina, Azores, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada Eastern Pacific, Columbia, Congo, Cuba, East-Atlantic Ocean, Equatorial Guinea, European Coasts, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Jamaica, Madeira, Nigeria, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Scandinavia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South America, South-Africa, Spain, the British Isles, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, Togo, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela
Size:: 19.69" - 35.98" (50cm - 91.4cm)
Temperature:: 53.6 °F - 80.6 °F (12°C - 27°C)
Food:: Fish (little fishes), Jackfish, Sepia
Difficulty:: Pas pour l'aquarium!
Toxicity:: Has a poison harmful to health

CITES:

Not evaluated

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Sarda australis
Sarda chiliensis
Sarda lineolata
Sarda orientalis
Sarda sarda
Atlantischer Bonito

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2012-10-10 18:42:04
Last edit:: 2012-10-10 18:42:04

Poison

Attention! Sarda sarda possède un venin nocif pour votre santé. Normalement les espèces de cette catégorie n’émettent pas de danger pour vous. Lisez bien les informations et les commentaires des utilisateurs qui possèdent Sarda sarda pour pouvoir mieux évaluer une possibilité de danger. Soyez prudents avec Sarda sarda. Chaque humain réagit différemment sur des venins. Si vous pensez d'avoir été en contact avec le venin consultez un médecin ou un centre antipoison. Le numéro des centres A
s
antipoison sont trouvables ici: European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists

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(Bloch, 1793)

Distribution:
Eastern Atlantic: Oslo, Norway to Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Also known from the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada to Florida, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico; then from Colombia, Venezuela, and south of the Amazon River to northern Argentina; apparently absent from most of the Caribbean Sea.

Biology:
Epipelagic, neritic and schooling species that may enter estuaries. Known to be cannibalistic, adults prey on small schooling fishes, invertebrates like squid and shrimps and can swallow relatively large prey.
Eggs and larvae pelagic.
Utilized fresh, dried or salted, smoked, canned and frozen.
Able to adapt to different temperatures 12° to 27°C and salinities 14 to 39.

Reports of ciguatera poisoning.

Synonymised taxa
Palamita sarda (Bloch, 1793)
Pelamis sarda (Bloch, 1793)
Pelamys sarda (Bloch, 1793)
Sarda mediterranea (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Sarda pelamis (Brünnich, 1768)
Scomber mediterraneus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Scomber palamitus Rafinesque, 1810
Scomber ponticus Pallas, 1814
Scomber sarda Bloch, 1793
Thynnus brachypterus Cuvier, 1829
Thynnus sardus (Bloch, 1793)

External links

FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Hamburger Abendblatt (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Homepage Prof. Dr. Peter Wirtz (en) (Archive.org). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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