Author: (Guichenot, 1850)

Plectorhinchus mediterraneus (Guichenot, 1850)

Diagnosis: head comparatively small, about 3.3 in standard length, much less than depth of body, snout long. Mouth small, slightly oblique, maxilla not reaching front of orbit. Gillrakers 19-20 on lower arm. Dorsal fin continuous with 11-12 spines and 17-19 rays; anal fin with 3 spines and 8-9 rays. Scales small, 54-57 in lateral line, 14 (1) 22-23 in transversal line. Colour: back greyish-violet, belly silvery. Size: to 80 cm SL, usually 30-60 cm.

Habitat: sandy and muddy bottoms, in depths of 10-150 m. Food: zoobenthos and zooplankton. Reproduction: no data.

Distribution: eastern Atlantic from the Canaries to Portugal, also western Mediterranean. Elsewhere, southward, along West Africa to Angola.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. Cadenat, 1950, fig. 136 | Dieuzeide et al., 1954: 16, fig
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Perciformes
Suborder Percoidei
Family Haemulidae
Genus Plectorhinchus
Species Plectorhinchus mediterraneus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Plectorhinchus mediterraneus (Guichenot, 1850)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Plectorhinchus mediterraneus (Guichenot, 1850)

Synonyms:

Diagramma mediterraneum Guichenot, 1850, Explor. Algérie. Poiss.: 45, pl. III (Alger). Type: MNHN no. 7806.
Diagramma mediterraneum: Günther, 1859,1: 321 Bourjot, 1870: 42 Steindachner, 1870, 61(1): 582 (Gorée); 1882, 44 (1): 25 (Rufisque) Rochebrune, 1883: 50 (Guet N'Dar, Dakar) Doderlein, 1889: 120 Stassano, 1890: 32 (Spanish Sahara) Steindachner, 1 891,100 (1): 360 (Las Palmas, Canaries) Carus, 1893: 617 (Valence, Alger) Pellegrin, 1905, 60: 52, fig. (Cape Blanco); 1905, 30: 138 (Cape Blanco, Cape Verde) Murray & Hjort, 1912: 403 (Canary) Pellegrin, 1914, 6 (4): 146 (Cape Blanco, Baie du Lévrier, Mossamedes) Metzelaar, 1919, 2: 243 (Cape Blanco) Chabanaud & Monod, 1926: 266 (Rio de Oro) Nobre, 1935: 33, pl. 5 (fig. 13) (Matozinhos, Faro, Portugal) Cadenat, 1950: 201, fig. 135-136 Roux, 1957: 186 (coast of equatorial Africa, Atlantic).
Pseudo-Helotes güntheri (Capello ms.) Guimaraes, 1882, Jorn. Sci. math. phys. nat., Lisboa, 8: 222.
Parapristipoma mediterraneum: Jordan & Fesler, 1893: 503 (western and eastern Mediterranean, Cadix) Le Gall, 1933, fig. F. de Buen, 1936: 113 (coasts of Spain, Atlantic and Mediterranean) Fowler, 1936: 810 (Eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean) Lozano Rey, 1952: 225, pl. 15 (fig. 3) (Gibraltar to Angola; Valence) Dollfus, 1955: 150 Dieuzeide et al., 1955: 15, fig. Albuquerque, 1954-1956: 696, fig. 303A (Portugal).
Plectorhynchus mediterraneus: Poll, 1954, 4 (3A): 215, fig. 64 da Franca & Picciochi, 1958: 185, fig.7.
Parapristipoma güntheri: Albuquerque, 1954-1956: 696, fig. 304.


Common names:

anjelina [Pr]
anjounil [Pr]
burro chiclero [Es]
burro mulato [Pr]
burro [Es]
chaputa [Pr]
diagramme gris [Fr]
dorade grise [Fr]
rubber-lip grunt [En]
taghoualt [Ar]

Albuquerque, R. M. 1954-1956. Peixes de Portugal e ilhas adjacentes. Chavas para a sua determinação. Port. Acta biol., ser. B, 5: xvi+1167 pp., 445 fig.

Bourjot, A. 1864-1870. Liste des poissons que l'on rencontre le plus souvent au marché d'Alger ou Guide à la Pêcherie, opuscule destiné à faire surtout connaître les espèces les meilleures pour la table, leur appret culinaire, etc. Bull. Soc. Climatol. Alger, 186-468,1: 418-433, 485-513, 556-582; 1868, 2 :14-35, 134-138 (Reprint Alger, 1870: 1-132).

Buen, F. de 1936a. Fauna ictiologica. Catalogo de los peces ibericos: de la planicie continental, aguas dulces, pelagicos y de los abismos proximos. Tertia parte. Notas Resúm. Inst. esp. Oceanogr., ser. II, (94): pp. 151-173.

Carus, J. V. 1893. Vertebrata. 1. class. Pisces: pp. 498-711, In: Prodromus faunae Mediterraneae sive Descriptio Animalium Maris Mediterranei incolarum quam comparata silva rerum quatenus innotuit adiectis locis et nominibus vulgaribus. . . Stuttgart, 1889-1893, 2: ix+854 pp.

Chabanaud, P.; Monod, Th. 1927. Les Poissons de Port-Étienne, contribution à la faune ichthyologique de la Région du Cap Blanc (Mauritanie Francaise). Bull. Com. Étud. hist. scient. Afr. occid. fr., 1926, 9: pp. 225-287, 33 fig., 3 pl.

Dieuzeide, R.; Novella, M. (collab. J. Roland), 1953-1955. Catalogue des Poissons des Côtes algériennes. Bull. Stn Aquic. Pêch. Castiglione, I (n.s.), (4), 1952 [1953]: pp. 1-135, 73 fig. n. num.; II (n.s.), (5), 1953 [1954]: pp. 1-258, 135 fig. n. num.; III (n.s.), (6), 1954 [1955]: pp. 1-384, 202 fig. n. num.

Döderlein, P. 1879-1891. Manuale Ittiologico del Mediterraneo ossia senossi metodica delle varie specie di pesci riscontrate sin qui nel Mediterraneo ed in particolare nei mari di Sicilia. Palermo, 1879-1891 (on title: '1879-1880') 5 parts: I, 1879: viii+67 pp.; II, 1881: pp. 1-120; III, 1884: pp. 121-258; IV, 1889: pp. 1-188; V, 1891: pp. 189-320.

Dollfus, R. Ph. 1955. Première contribution à l'établissement d'un fichier ichthyologique du Maroc atlantique de Tanger à l'embouchure de l'Oued Dra. Trav. Inst. scient. chérif., Zool, (6): 227 pp., 1 map.

Fowler, H. W. 1936. The Marine Fishes of West Africa, based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition 1909-1915. Bull. am. Mus. nat. Hist., 70 (1), Jan. 21, 1936: pp. vii+1-606, fig. 1-275; (2), Nov. 18, 1936: pp. 607-1493, fig. 276-567.

Franca, P. da; Picciochi, P. 1958. Contribução para o conhecimento dos Pomadasyidae de Angola. Trabalhos da missao de Biologia maritima, no. 23. Mems. Jta Invest. Ultramar, 4 : pp. 145-195.

Guichenot, A. 1850. Histoire naturelle des Reptiles et des Poissons. Explor. Scient., Algérie, 1840-1842. Sc. Phys., Zool., 5: 148 p., pl. 1-4 (Rept.) + 1-8 (Poiss.).

Guimaraes, A. R. Pereira 1882. Description d'un nouveau poisson du Portugal. Jorn. Sci. math. phys. nat., 1881 [188y, 8: 222-224.

Günther, A. 1859. Catalogue of the Acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. 1. Gasterosteidae, Berycidae, Percidae, Aphredoderidae, Pristipomatidae, Mullidae, Sparidae. London, pp. xxxi+524.

Jordan, D. S.; Fesler, B. 1893. A review of the Sparoid Fishes of America and Europe. Rep. U.S. Commnr Fish. for 1889-1891, 17: pp. 421-544, 55 pl.

Le Gall, J. 1933. Orthopristis (Pristipoma) bennetti Lowe. In: L. Joubin, ed., Faune ichthyol. Atlant. N., Copenhagen: fiche 254.

Lozano y Rey, L. 1952. Peces fisoclistos, Subserie Toracicos. Mems R. Acad. Cienc. exact. fis. nat. Madr., ser.: Cien. nat., Primate parte, 14: pp. xv+1-378, fig. 1-20, pl. I-XXX; Segunda parte, 14: pp. 379-705, fig. 21-31, pl. XXI-LI.

Metzelaar, J. 1919a. Report on the Fishes collected by Dr. J. Boeke in the Dutch West Indies, 1904-1905, with comparative notes on marine fishes of Tropical West Africa. In: J. Boeke, Rapport . . . Kolonie Curaçao: 1-315, 64 fig.

Murray, J.; Hjort, J. 1912a. The depths of the ocean. A general account of the modern science of oceanography based largely on the scientific researches of the norwegian steamer Michael Sars in the North Atlantic. London, 1912: pp.xx+821, 575 fig., unnumbered fig., 4 maps, 9 pl.

Nobre, A. 1935. Fauna marinha de Portugal. 1. Vertebrados (Mamiferos, Reptis e Peixes), Porto.: pp. Ixxxiv+1-21 (Mamiferos); pp. 1-5 (Reptis); pp. 1-574 (Peixes), pl. 1-77, phot. 1-64.

Pellegrin, J. 1905a. Mission des pêcheries de la côte occidentale d'Afrique dirigée par M. Gruvel. Bull. Soc. zool. Fr., 30: pp.135-141.

Pellegrin, J. 1905b. Mission des pêcheries de la côte occidentale d'Afrique. Poissons. Act. Soc. Iinn. Bordeaux, 60: pp. 17-57.

Pellegrin, J. 1914. Mission Gruvel sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique (1905-12). Poissons. Annls Inst. océanogr. Monaco, 6: pp. 1-99, 2 pl., 15 fig.

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Rochebrune, A. T. de. 1882. Faune de la Sénégambie. Act. Soc. linn. Bordeaux, (4) 6 [36] (lere liv.): 23-190, col. pl. I-VI. (Also separate, Paris-Bordeaux, 1883: 166 pp., 6 pl.)

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Cadenat, J. 1950. Note sur les merlus de la côte occidentale d'Afrique. Congr. Pêches Pêcher. Un. Franc. d'Outre-Mer, Inst. Col. Marseille: pp. 128-130.

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