Sarda sarda Atlantic bonito

Sarda sarda is commonly referred to as Atlantic bonito. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Has a poison harmful to health.

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AphiaID:: 127021

Scientific:: Sarda sarda
German:: Atlantischer Bonito
English:: Atlantic Bonito

Category:: Tunas

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scombridae (Family) > Sarda (Genus) > sarda (Species)
Initial determination:: (Bloch, ), 1793

Occurrence:: Straße von Gibraltar, Benin, the Black Sea, Angola, Argentina, Azores, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada Eastern Pacific, Columbia, Congo, Cuba, East-Atlantic Ocean, Equatorial Guinea, European Coasts, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Jamaica, Madeira, Nigeria, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Scandinavia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South America, South-Africa, Spain, the British Isles, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, Togo, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela
Size:: 19.69" - 35.98" (50cm - 91.4cm)
Temperature:: 53.6 °F - 80.6 °F (12°C - 27°C)
Food:: Fish (little fishes), Jackfish, Sepia
Difficulty:: Not suitable for home aquaria!
Toxicity:: Has a poison harmful to health

CITES:

Not evaluated

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Sarda australis
Sarda chiliensis
Sarda lineolata
Sarda orientalis
Sarda sarda
Atlantischer Bonito

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2012-10-10 18:42:04
Last edit:: 2012-10-10 18:42:04

Toxicity

This is a general hint!
Sarda sarda has a harmful toxin.
As a rule, animals with a harmful poison do not pose mortal danger in normal Aquarieaner everyday life. Read the following husbandry information and comments from aquarists who already keep Sarda sarda in their aquarium to get a better picture about the possible danger. However, please be careful when using Sarda sarda. Every human reacts differently to poisons.
If you suspect that you have come into contact with the poison, please contact your doctor or the poison emergency call.
The phone number of the poison emergency call can be found here:
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Overview Europe: European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists

Info

(Bloch, 1793)

Distribution:
Eastern Atlantic: Oslo, Norway to Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Also known from the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada to Florida, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico; then from Colombia, Venezuela, and south of the Amazon River to northern Argentina; apparently absent from most of the Caribbean Sea.

Biology:
Epipelagic, neritic and schooling species that may enter estuaries. Known to be cannibalistic, adults prey on small schooling fishes, invertebrates like squid and shrimps and can swallow relatively large prey.
Eggs and larvae pelagic.
Utilized fresh, dried or salted, smoked, canned and frozen.
Able to adapt to different temperatures 12° to 27°C and salinities 14 to 39.

Reports of ciguatera poisoning.

Synonymised taxa
Palamita sarda (Bloch, 1793)
Pelamis sarda (Bloch, 1793)
Pelamys sarda (Bloch, 1793)
Sarda mediterranea (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Sarda pelamis (Brünnich, 1768)
Scomber mediterraneus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Scomber palamitus Rafinesque, 1810
Scomber ponticus Pallas, 1814
Scomber sarda Bloch, 1793
Thynnus brachypterus Cuvier, 1829
Thynnus sardus (Bloch, 1793)

External links

FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Hamburger Abendblatt (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Homepage Prof. Dr. Peter Wirtz (en) (Archive.org). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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