Seriola carpenteri Guinean amberjack

Seriola carpenteri is commonly referred to as Guinean amberjack. Difficulty in the aquarium: Pas pour l'aquarium!. Toxicity: Has a poison harmful to health.

Prof. Dr. Peter Wirtz, Madeira

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Scientific:: Seriola carpenteri
German:: Bernsteinmakrele
English:: Guinean Amberjack

Category:: Carangues

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Carangidae (Family) > Seriola (Genus) > carpenteri (Species)
Initial determination:: Mather, 1971

Occurrence:: Ghana, Benin, Angola, Bay of Biscay, Cameroon, Congo, East-Atlantic Ocean, Equatorial Guinea, European Coasts, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, Togo, West Africa
Size:: 15.75" - 28.74" (40cm - 73cm)
Temperature:: 64.4 °F - 80.6 °F (18°C - 27°C)
Food:: Fish (little fishes), Predatory, Sepia
Difficulty:: Pas pour l'aquarium!
Toxicity:: Has a poison harmful to health

CITES:

Not evaluated

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2012-11-10 17:07:43
Last edit:: 2012-11-10 17:07:43

Poison

Attention! Seriola carpenteri 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 Seriola carpenteri pour pouvoir mieux évaluer une possibilité de danger. Soyez prudents avec Seriola carpenteri. 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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Mather, 1971

Distribution:
Eastern Atlantic: Bay of Biscay and Agadir, Morocco to Angola, including Cape Verde.
Migrants were caught around Lampedusa Island (Mediterranean Sea).

Biology:
Generally confined only in coastal waters over continental shelf, from the surface to at least 200 m.
Feed on squids and fishes.
Confined to areas where surface temperature exceed 25°C, its distribution perhaps influenced by seasonal movements of the 18-27°C water mass along the African coast.
Eggs are pelagic.

caution:
Reports of ciguatera poisoning!

External links

FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Homepage Prof. Dr. Peter Wirtz (en) (Archive.org). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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