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Sarda sarda Atlantic bonito

Sarda sardais 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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lexID:
4711 
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:
Benin, Straße von Gibralta, the Black Sea, Angola, Argentina, Azores, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada , 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:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
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 Worldwide: eapcct.org

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)

Scientific paper

  1. Microsatellite DNA reveals genetically different populations of Atlantic bonito Sarda sarda in the Mediterranean Basin, Turan, Cemal, 2015
  2. Monthly variation of total lipid and fatty acid contents of Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda (Bloch, 1793) of Black Sea, Balçik Misir, Gülsüm; Tufan, Bekir; Köse, Sevim , 2014
  3. Age, growth, and reproductive biology of Atlantic bonito (Sarda sarda Bloch, 1793) from the Turkish coasts of the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara, KAHRAMAN, Abdullah Ekrem; GÖKTÜRK, Didem; YILDIZ, Taner; UZER, Uğur , 2014
  4. Diet of the Atlantic bonito Sarda sarda (Bloch, 1793) in the Northeast Aegean Sea, Fletcher, N.; Batjakas, I. E.; Pierce, G. J. , 2013
  5. Heavy metals content by ICP-OES in Sarda sarda , Sardinella aurita and Lepidopus caudatus from the Strait of Messina (Sicily, Italy), Lo Turco, Vincenzo; Di Bella, Giuseppa; Furci, Patrizia; Cicero, Nicola; Pollicino, Gianmichele; Dugo, Giacomo , 2013
  6. Effect of Modified Atmosphere Packaging on Quality and Shelf Life of Salted Bonito ( Sarda sarda ), Caglak, Emre; Cakli, Sukran; Kilinc, Berna , 2012
  7. Fatty acid profile and proximate composition of fillets from Engraulis encrasicholus, Mullus barbatus, Merluccius merluccius and Sarda sarda caught in Tyrrhenian, Adriatic and Ionian seas, A. Roncarati; G. Brambilla; A. Meluzzi; A. L. Iamiceli; R. Fanelli; I. Moret; A. Ubaldi; R. Miniero; F. Sirri; P. Melotti; A. di Domenico, 2012
  8. Seasonal variation of organochlorine contaminants in bonito (Sarda sarda L. 1758) and anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus L. 1758) in Black Sea region, Turkey, Gul Celik Cakirogullari; Selcuk Secer, 2011
  9. Biogenic amines formation in Atlantic bonito (Sarda sarda) fillets packaged with modified atmosphere and vacuum, wrapped in chitosan and cling film at 4, Gonca Alak; Sükriye Aras Hisar; Olcay Hisar; Hüseyin Genççelep, 2011
  10. Comparison of the lipid profiles from wild caught eggs and unfed larvae of two scombroid fish: northern bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnusL., 1758) and Atlantic bonito (Sarda sardaBloch, 1793), Aurelio Ortega; Gabriel Mourente, 2010
  11. First data on the juvenile Atlantic bonito Sarda sarda (Bloch, 1793) from the Adriatic Sea, B. Zorica; G. Sinovčić, 2008
  12. Age and growth of Atlantic bonito (Sarda sarda Bloch, 1793) in the Sea of Marmara and Black Sea, Turkey, C. Ateş; M. Cengiz Deval; T. Bök, 2008
  13. 29 kDa Trypsin from the Pyloric Ceca of Atlantic Bonito ( Sarda sarda ):  Recovery and Characterization, Klomklao, Sappasith; Benjakul, Soottawat; Visessanguan, Wonnop; Kishimura, Hideki; Simpson, Benjamin K. , 2007
  14. Feeding habits of the Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda (Bloch, 1793) in the southern Tyrrhenian sea, D. Campo; E. Mostarda; L. Castriota; M.P. Scarabello; F. Andaloro, 2006
  15. Effect of freeze–thaw cycles on total and heme iron contents of bonito (Sarda sarda) and bluefish (Pomatomus saltator) fillets, Sadettin Turhan; N. Sule Ustun; Inci Bank, 2006
  16. Phylogeography of the Atlantic bonito (Sarda sarda) in the northern Mediterranean: the combined effects of historical vicariance, population expansion, secondary invasion, and isolation by distance, Jordi Viñas; Jaime Alvarado Bremer; Carles Pla, 2004
  17. Novel Method for the Discrimination of Tuna ( Thunnus t hynnus ) and Bonito ( Sarda sarda ) DNA, Lockley, Andrew K.; Bardsley, Ronald G. , 2000
  18. Bonito or Pelamid Sarda sarda Bloch in Irish Waters, Further Records and a Review of the Irish Records, D. T. G. Quigley and K. Flannery, 1992
  19. Total mercury, organic mercury, copper, manganese, selenium, and zinc in Sarda sarda from the gulf of Genoa, R. Capelli; V. Minganti; M. Bernhard, 1987
  20. The Occurrence of the Common Bonito, Sarda sarda, in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Boschung, Herbert T., 1966
  21. The Atlantic bonito,Sarda sarda, in Northern Chesapeake Bay, and comments on the seaside fishery of Maryland, Romeo J. Mansueti, 1962
  22. Two New Trematodes from the Bonito, Sarda sarda, in the Gulf of Mexico, Asa C. Chandler, 1941

External links

  1. FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Hamburger Abendblatt (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. Homepage Prof. Dr. Peter Wirtz (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  4. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  5. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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