Acanthostracion polygonium Honeycomb cowfish

Acanthostracion polygonium is commonly referred to as Honeycomb cowfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Only for advanced aquarists. A aquarium size of at least 2000 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Has a poison harmful to health.

Profile

lexID:

3245 

AphiaID:

1577312 

Scientific:

Acanthostracion polygonium 

German:

Waben-Kofferfisch 

English:

Honeycomb Cowfish 

Category:

Kuffertfisk 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Teleostei (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Ostraciidae (Family) > Acanthostracion (Genus) > polygonium (Species) 

Initial determination:

Poey, 1876 

Occurrence:

Guadeloupe, Suriname, Barbados, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Columbia, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Florida, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South-Africa, The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay, USA, 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:

3 - 80 Meter 

Size:

up to 19.69" (50 cm) 

Temperature:

73.4 °F - 80.6 °F (23°C - 27°C) 

Food:

Brine Shrimps, Coral polyps = corallivorous, Krill, Rock shrimps, Schrimps, Sponges 

Tank:

439.96 gal (~ 2000L)  

Difficulty:

Only for advanced aquarists 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Has a poison harmful to health 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Acanthostracion guineensis
• 
  Acanthostracion notacanthus
  Kofferfisch
• Acanthostracion polygonius
• 
  Acanthostracion quadricornis
  Horn-Kofferfisch, Bekritzelter Kofferfisch, Vierhorn-Kofferfisch, Kuhfisch

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Acanthostracion polygonium
  Waben-Kofferfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2010-06-30 22:58:07 

Last edit:

2024-05-05 13:10:13 

Toxicity

This is a general hint!
Acanthostracion polygonium 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 Acanthostracion polygonium in their aquarium to get a better picture about the possible danger. However, please be careful when using Acanthostracion polygonium. 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:
[overview_and_url_DE]
Overview Europe: European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists

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