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Teleostei (teleosts) > Lophiiformes (Anglerfishes) > Lophiidae (Goosefishes)
Etymology: Lophiomus: Greek, lophos = crest + Greek, mys = muscle.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; demersal; depth range 30 - 800 m (Ref. 58488). Tropical

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Indo-West Pacific: East China Sea, South China Sea, Timor Sea, and adjacent to Japan, China, Taiwan, and western Australia.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m 35.0, range 30 - 40 cm
Max length : 28.4 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 131498); common length : 30.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 3461)

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Dorsal spines (total): 6; Dorsal soft rays (total): 8; Anal soft rays: 6; Vertebrae: 18 - 19. This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following characters: D VI,8; pelvic-fin rays mostly 7, pectoral-fin rays 21–23. Colouration: body brown, peritoneum with gray pigmentation, and circular or irregular light pattern on the dark floor of the mouth (Ref. 131498).

Found on sandy mud bottom (Ref. 11230). Oviparous (Ref. 205), multiple spawner (Ref. 32832). Depth range in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea is between 30-500 m (Ref. 11230)

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Oviparous (Ref. 205).

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Caruso, J.H., 1983. The systematics and distribution of the lophiid anglerfishes. II. Revisions of the genera Lophiomus and Lophius. Copeia 1983(1):11-30. (Ref. 5262)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 12 August 2019

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 9.8 - 22.5, mean 15 °C (based on 621 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 1.0000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01995 (0.00910 - 0.04376), b=3.00 (2.81 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 4.0 ±0.66 se; based on food items.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Fec = 330,000).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (25 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Very high.

Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl, 1797)