Silver warehou (Seriolella punctata)

Scientific name: Seriolella punctata Forster, 1801

Silver warehou (Seriolella punctata)

The Silver warehou (Seriolella punctata) is a brackish-water fish of the family Centrolophidae. Native range: Eastern Indian Ocean, southern Australia, from South Australia to New South Wales and Tasmania. Southwest Pacific: New Zealand. Southeast Pacific: Chile.

Biology

Adults are usually demersal on the continental shelf and slope, occasionally occurring at the surface; subadults in surface waters, sometimes entering bays, while juveniles occur offshore. Reported from depths of 27 m to 600 m. They form feeding and spawning aggregations. Spotted warehou are schooling species, usually aggregating close to the sea bed although there is some evidence that they move into the middle water column at night. During spring-summer in New Zealand, adult and juvenile fish migrate to feed along the continental slope off the east and southeast coast of the South Island. Adults mainly eat planktonic tunicates.

Source: FishBase, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Species facts

Scientific name
Seriolella punctata
Family
Centrolophidae (Medusafishes)
Order
Perciformes (Perch-like fish)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
66.0
Common length
51.0
Depth range
27–650 m (89–2133 ft)
Environment
Marine; brackish; benthopelagic; oceanodromous; depth range 27 - 650 m
Climate
Temperate
Distribution
Eastern Indian Ocean: southern Australia, from South Australia to New South Wales and Tasmania. Southwest Pacific: New Zealand. Southeast Pacific: Chile.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Uses
Fisheries: commercial
Resilience
Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.36; tm=3-4; tmax=15)

Sources

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

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