Brazil country information

Common names: Cabra, Cabrinha, Cascudo
Occurrence: native
Salinity: brackish
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Uses: live export: yes;
Comments: Occurs off southern Brazil (Ref. 27363). MZUSP 78398 (Ref. 47377). Traded as an aquarium fish at Fortaleza, Ceará (Ref. 49392). Located at the southernmost tip of the Bombinhas peninsula, southern Brazil (Ref. 55758). Caught by shrimp trawl in Pirambu, Sergipe (Ref. 118626).
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/br.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Cervigón, F., R. Cipriani, W. Fischer, L. Garibaldi, M. Hendrickx, A.J. Lemus, R. Márquez, J.M. Poutiers, G. Robaina and B. Rodriguez, 1992
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Common names from other countries

Grondin poule, Atlantic searobin, Spotted searobin, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Perciformes/Scorpaenoidei (Scorpionfishes) > Triglidae (Searobins) > Prionotinae
Etymology: Prionotus: Greek, prion, -onos = saw + Greek, noton = back (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Bloch.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; brackish; demersal; depth range ? - 190 m (Ref. 47377), usually 18 - 70 m (Ref. 5217). Subtropical; 26°N - 53°S, 98°W - 34°W

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Prionotus punctatus (Bloch, 1793)

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology