Chelon labrosus Thicklip grey mullet

Chelon labrosus is commonly referred to as Thicklip grey mullet. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

4935 

AphiaID:

126977 

Scientific:

Chelon labrosus 

German:

Dicklippige Meeräsche 

English:

Thicklip Grey Mullet 

Category:

 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Mugilidae (Family) > Chelon (Genus) > labrosus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Risso, ), 1827 

Occurrence:

Straße von Gibraltar, the Black Sea, East-Atlantic Ocean, Egypt, Iceland, Israel, Madeira, Morocco, Portugal, São Tomé e Principé, Scandinavia, Senegal, Spain, the British Isles, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Isle of Man, the Mediterranean Sea 

Size:

12.6" - 29.53" (32cm - 75cm) 

Temperature:

°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Algae (Algivore), Amphipods, Aquatic plant, Crustaceans, Daphnia salina, Detritus, Insects, Invertebrates, Phytoplankton, Snails, Worms, Zoobenthos, Zooplankton 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Chelon bispinosus
• 
  Chelon labrosus
  Dicklippige Meeräsche
• Chelon macrolepis
• Chelon melinopterus
• Chelon parsia
• Chelon subviridis

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Chelon auratus
  Gold-Meeräsche

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2013-01-02 19:29:49 

Last edit:

2013-01-02 19:29:49 

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