Chicken grunt (Parapristipoma trilineatum)

Scientific name: Parapristipoma trilineatum Thunberg, 1793

Chicken grunt (Parapristipoma trilineatum)

The Chicken grunt (Parapristipoma trilineatum) is a marine fish of the family Haemulidae. Native range: Indo-West Pacific, southern Japan, East China Sea and Taiwan.

Biology

Cultured and released for fishery in Japan. The species prefers relative warm water, high salinity, and rocky shores. The species does seasonal offshore-inshore migrations in limited areas.

Source: FishBase, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Species facts

Scientific name
Parapristipoma trilineatum
Family
Haemulidae (Grunts)
Order
Perciformes (Perch-like fish)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
40.0
Environment
Marine; benthopelagic; oceanodromous
Climate
Subtropical
Distribution
Indo-West Pacific: southern Japan, East China Sea and Taiwan.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Uses
Fisheries: commercial
Resilience
Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.25-0.35; tm=2; Fec=30,083)

Sources

Taxonomy, distribution and biology data: FishBase (Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds.), licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

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