Four-bearded sea burbot
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Four-bearded sea burbot ( Enchelyopus cimbrius ) |
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The four-bearded sea burbot ( Enchelyopus cimbrius , Syn .: Rhinonemus cimbrius ) is a sea fish from the order of the cod-like (Gadiformes). It occurs in two separate distribution areas in the northern Atlantic and some tributaries. It lives in the north-eastern Atlantic from southern Greenland , the coast of Norway and the south coast of Iceland via the British Isles to the English Channel , the North Sea and the western Baltic Sea . A single specimen was caught at Cap Blanc on the Mauritanian coast and one on the Estonian coast . In the northwestern Atlantic, the distribution area extends from the northern Gulf of Mexico to Newfoundland .
features
The four-bearded sea burbot becomes a maximum of 41 centimeters long, but usually stays at a length of 30 centimeters. It reaches sexual maturity at a length of 15 to 25 centimeters. Your body is elongated, their color mostly brown and varies from dark to light. It is characterized by a chin Bartel and one each Bartel on the upper jaw, at the tip of the snout and on the outer nostrils. The first ray of the dorsal fin is elongated. This is followed by a series of short, fleshy fin rays, then a gap and then the actual long dorsal fin.
Way of life
The four-bearded sea burbot lives on the shelf , on mud and sandy bottoms at depths of 20 to 50, up to a maximum of 650 meters. It feeds on small flatfish and other small fish, copepods , small decapods , amphipods , hover shrimp , prawns , sea lobsters and other small crustaceans . It is caught as by-catch in trawling , but has no economic significance.
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 .
Web links
- Four-bearded sea burbot on Fishbase.org (English)