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Rexea solandri (Southern kingfish; Silver kingfish; Silver gemfish; Kingfish; King couta; King barracuda; King barracouta; Hake; Gemfish; Deepsea kingfish; Common gemfish)

Synonyms: Gempylus solandri; Rexea furcifera; Thyrsites micropus
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Wikipedia Abstract

Rexea solandri, the Silver gemfish, is a species of snake mackerel found in the southwestern Pacific Ocean around Australia and New Zealand with reports of possible records from Madagascar and Japan. This species occurs in schools at depths of between 100 to 800 metres (330 to 2,620 ft) though mostly between 300 to 450 metres (980 to 1,480 ft). This species can reach a length of up to 110 centimetres (43 in) SL and a maximum weight of 16 kilograms (35 lb) has been recorded. This species is important to local commercial fisheries.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  19.401 lbs (8.80 kg)
Female Maturity [2]  5 years
Male Maturity [1]  4 years
Maximum Longevity [2]  16 years
Migration [3]  Oceanodromous

Prey / Diet

Apogonops anomalus (Flathead feed)[4]
Haliporoides sibogae (jack-knife prawn)[4]

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Gempylitrema gempylli[8]
Hepatoxylon trichiuri[8]
Hysterothylacium aduncum[9]
Neoheteraxinoides regis[8]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 3Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Diets of fishes of the upper continental slope of eastern Tasmania: content, calorific values, dietary overlap and trophic relationships, S.J.M. Blaber and C.M. Bulman, Marine Biology 95, 345-356 (1987)
♦ 6Distribution and Food Habits of the Slender Smoothhound, Gollum attenuatus, from the Waters around New Zealand, Kazunari Yano, Japanese Journal of Ichthyology Vol. 39, No. 4 (1993) p. 345-356
♦ 7Feeding ecology of two high-order predators from south-eastern Australia: the coastal broadnose and the deepwater sharpnose sevengill sharks, J. Matías Braccini, Marine Ecology Progress Series 371:273–284 (2008)
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 9Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0