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Trachinus draco (Greater weever; Greater weever fish)

Synonyms: Echiichthys draco; Trachinus lineatus
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Wikipedia Abstract

The greater weever (Trachinus draco) is a weever fish of the family Trachinidae. This venomous fish is found in the northeast Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cardigan Bay/ Bae Ceredigion 236876 Wales, United Kingdom
Fal and Helford 15785 England, United Kingdom    
Karadagskiy Zapovednik Nature Zapovednik 13876 Ukraine  
Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau 360832 Wales, United Kingdom
Waddensea Area Nature Reserve with Management Subsidy IV 600666 Netherlands  

Prey / Diet

Buglossidium luteum (Yellow sole)[1]
Pollachius pollachius (Pollock)[1]

Predators

Raja clavata (Roker)[1]
Raja montagui (Homelyn ray)[2]
Squalus acanthias (Common spiny)[1]
Trachurus trachurus (Scad)[1]

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
♦ 2Diet comparison of four ray species (Raja clavata, Raja brachyura, Raja montagui and Leucoraja naevus) caught along the Portuguese continental shelf, Inês Farias, Ivone Figueiredo, Teresa Moura, Leonel Serrano Gordo, Ana Neves and Bárbara Serra-Pereira, Aquat. Living Resour. 19, 105–114 (2006)
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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