Three-bearded sea burbot
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Three-bearded sea tadpole ( Gaidropsarus vulgaris ) |
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The three-bearded sea tadpole ( Gaidropsarus vulgaris ) is a fish from the order of the cod-like (Gadiformes).
features
The three-bearded sea burbot grows up to 60 cm long and is brownish in color with large dark brown spots on the head and body. The color of the fins varies with the area of distribution. The dark spots on the fins are darker in specimens in the southern distribution area than in those from the northern occurrence. The name refers to her three barbels : she has one at the nostrils and a longer one at the tip of the lower jaw. In front of the dorsal fin lies a single fin ray that is shorter than the diameter of the eye and followed by a low, fleshy border.
distribution
The three-bearded sea tadpole lives close to the coast at depths of 20 to 120 meters in the European west Atlantic from the coast of southern Norway and the Faroe Islands across the North Sea , around the British Isles, in the Biscay and on the north coast of the western Mediterranean to the Adriatic Sea . She prefers cooler water.
ecology
The three-bearded sea burbot usually does not move far from its hiding place. Their diet consists mainly of small fish, crabs and other invertebrates . The three-bearded sea burbot is caught with trawls and longlines and used as food fish in most parts of its range.
literature
- Bent J. Muus, Jørgen G. Nielsen: The marine fish of Europe in the North Sea, Baltic Sea and Atlantic. Kosmos, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-440-07804-3 .
- Andreas Vilcinskas : 1000 fish . Naumann & Göbel mbH, Cologne, ISBN 3-625-10570-5
Web links
- Three-bearded sea burbot on Fishbase.org (English)