Rypticus saponaceus Greater soapfish

Rypticus saponaceus is commonly referred to as Greater soapfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Has a poison harmful to health.

Profile

lexID:

4505 

AphiaID:

275963 

Scientific:

Rypticus saponaceus 

German:

Dreistacheliger Seifenbarsch 

English:

Greater Soapfish 

Category:

 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Serranidae (Family) > Rypticus (Genus) > saponaceus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Bloch & Schneider, ), 1801 

Occurrence:

Benin, Ghana, Gambia, Guadeloupe, Suriname, Barbados, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Congo, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Florida, French Guiana, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico (East Pacific), Montserrat, Nigeria, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé e Principé, Sierra Leone, South-Africa, The Bahamas, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Cayman Islands, The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Netherlands Antilles, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA, Venezuela, West Africa 

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:

1 - 140 Meter 

Habitats:

Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

9.84" - 13.78" (25cm - 35cm) 

Temperature:

23,4 °F - 82.4 °F (23,4°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Coralfish of all kind, Crustaceans, Fish (little fishes), Invertebrates, Krill, Living Food, Mysis, Schrimps, Shrimps 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

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:

• Rypticus bicolor
• 
  Rypticus bistrispinus
  Seifenbarsch
• Rypticus bornoi
• Rypticus carpenteri
• Rypticus courtenayi
• Rypticus maculatus
• Rypticus nigripinnis
• 
  Rypticus randalli
  Randall´s Seifenbarsch
• 
  Rypticus saponaceus
  Dreistacheliger Seifenbarsch
• 
  Rypticus subbifrenatus
  Gepunkteter Seifenbarsch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2012-08-04 17:16:20 

Last edit:

2025-04-06 20:43:23 

Toxicity

This is a general hint!
Rypticus saponaceus 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 Rypticus saponaceus in their aquarium to get a better picture about the possible danger. However, please be careful when using Rypticus saponaceus. 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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