Greater Amberjack (MatBio: FISHES - Matanzas Biodiversity)

Greater Amberjack

Seriola dumerili

Summary ⁶

The greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) is a jack of the genus Seriola. It is found in the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian coasts, living usually between 20 and 70 m of depth (with a maximum of 360 m). It is the largest genus in the Carangidae family, with a maximum length of 200 cm. It is a fast-swimming pelagic fish with similar habits to the kingfish. They are silver-blue with a golden side...

General description ⁷

Seriola dumerili (Risso, 1810)

Aegean Sea : 13800-261 (1 spc.), 27.11.1990 , Bodrum , N. Meriç .

Comprehensive description ⁸

The Greater Amberjack (Seriola dumerili) is a member of the Jack family, which consists of typically large, fast-swimming fishes of tropical and warm-temperate seas, occurring from coastal bays and lagoons to open ocean (Robins and Ray 1986).

Distribution ⁹

The Greater Amberjack has a nearly worldwide distribution in warm waters; in the western Atlantic, it is found from Massachusetts (U.S.A.) to southeastern Brazil (Robins and Ray 1986).

The Greater Amberjack is widely distributed in the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Western Pacific (Porta et al. 2009).

The Greater Amberjack is widely distributed in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans (Harris et al. 2007).

Morphology ¹⁰

Dorsal spines (total): 8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 29 - 35; Analspines: 3; Analsoft rays: 18 - 22

Size ¹¹

Maximum size: 1900 mm TL

Description ¹²

Inhabits deep seaward reefs occasionally entering coastal bays. Feeds primarily on fishes such as the bigeye scad, also feeds on invertebrates (Ref. 4233). Small juveniles associate with floating plants or debris in oceanic and offshore waters. Juveniles form small schools or solitary (Ref. 5213). Distribution in eastern central Atlantic along the African coast is not well established due to past confusion with @S. carpenteri@ (Ref. 7097). The species is rarely exotic (Ref. 637). Flesh is edible (Ref. 5521). Utilized fresh and frozen; eaten pan-fried, broiled and baked (Ref. 9987).

Habitat ¹³

Known from seamounts and knolls

Associations ¹⁴

Parrish et al. (2008) used CRITTERCAMS fitted on Hawaiian Monk Seals to study interactions during foraging between the seals and large predatory fish, including the Greater Amberjack. Greater Amberjacks are quick and more agile than the seals, but showed much less ability to detect and flush benthic prey from cover. The seals use their whiskers to brush along the bottom and chase out camouflaged prey. They can also dig out wrasses and eels that are buried deep in the sand bottom and they easily flip large rocks (~20 kg) to obtain prey items hiding beneath. The jacks’ awareness of such behavior enables them to swim ahead of the seal and wait near a rock until the seal arrives and moves the rock, flushing prey items from cover. Parrish et al. found that the jacks routinely positioned their mouths within inches of the seal’s nose to maximize their chances of snatching prey items flushed by the bottom-probing of the seal. On numerous occasions they were observed capturing prey before the seal could catch it.

Andaloro and Pipitone (1997) studied the stomach contents of 308 adult Greater Amberjack in the Mediterranean Sea. They found that fish occurred in 79.7% of non-empty stomachs, accounting for 79.5% of prey in number and 71.0% in weight; cephalopods occurred in 26.8% of non-empty stomachs, accounting for 20.5% of prey in number and 29.0% in weight. Overall, pelagic prey items were less frequent than demersal (dwelling near the sea bottom) ones; moreover, males fed much more intensely on demersal prey than did females.

Diet ¹⁵

Feeds primarily on fishes such as the bigeye scad, also feeds on invertebrates

Life cycle ¹⁶

Spawning happens during the summer, in areas near the coast. Embryo development lasts about 40 hours at 23° and larval development 31-36 days. Egg size 1.9 mm, larval at hatching 2.9 mm.

Reproduction ¹⁷

Based on an examination of about 2500 Greater Amberjack collected from North Carolina to the Florida Keys, Harris et al. (2007) estimated potential fecundity at 18,271,400 to 59,032,800 oocytes for 930 to 1,296 mm specimens and from 25,472,100 to 47,194,300 oocytes for ages 3 to 7. Peak spawning off south Florida and the Florida Keys occurred during April and May.

Link to Access Genomic Data ¹⁸

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=41447&lvl=0

Sources and Credits

(c) John Turnbull, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnwturnbull/12866610053/
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