Taxonomy
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Identification Information
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Taxonomic notes
Assessment Information
- IUCN Red List Category and Criteria
- Least Concern ver 3.1
- Assessment language
- English
- Year published
- 2013
- Date assessed
- 2010-05-18 00:00:00 UTC
Previously published Red List assessments
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This species is relatively widespread in the Indo-Pacific, and is not common. It is not widely fished, and there are no other known threats. It is listed as Least Concern.
Geographic Range
Native
Extant (resident)
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Extant
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Population
There is no known information currently available on the population of this species. This is not a common species.
Habitat and Ecology
Marine
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This species can be found on inner reef flats, most frequently in seagrass beds and coral rubble (Conand and Mangion 2002) to depths of about 10m.
Classification scheme
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Threats
This species is not commercially important in the Western Central Pacific (Kinch et al. 2008). It is fished in China and Indonesia; in the latter it is part of a multispecies fishery, where it is used as a filler to top up weights during sales (Choo 2008).
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Although not one of the most important species (low value) for fishery purposes, it can be expected that this species may become more popular after the depletion or reduction of other species of higher commercial importance and value.
Classification scheme
Threats
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Use trade
This species is not commercially important in the Western Central Pacific (Kinch et al. 2008). It is fished in China and Indonesia; in the latter it is part of a multispecies fishery, where it is used as a filler to top up weights during sales (Choo 2008).
Text summary
There are no known species specific conservation measures for this species.