Pseudupeneus maculatus Spotted goatfish

Pseudupeneus maculatus is commonly referred to as Spotted goatfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

2706 

AphiaID:

159421 

Scientific:

Pseudupeneus maculatus 

German:

Gefleckte-Meerbarbe 

English:

Spotted Goatfish 

Category:

Muller 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Mullidae (Family) > Pseudupeneus (Genus) > maculatus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Bloch, ), 1793 

Occurrence:

Suriname, Barbados, Guadeloupe, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico (East Pacific), Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S., West-Atlantic Ocean 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

0 - 90 Meter 

Size:

up to 11.81" (30 cm) 

Temperature:

22,8 °F - 82.4 °F (22,8°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Invertebrates 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Pseudupeneus grandisquamis
  Meerbarbe
• 
  Pseudupeneus maculatus
  Gefleckte-Meerbarbe
• 
  Pseudupeneus prayensis
  Westafrikanische Meerbarbe

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2009-01-25 13:35:09 

Last edit:

2022-06-27 11:49:36 

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