Haemulon melanurum

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Cottonwick Grunt, Haemulon melanurum, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2014

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AphiaID:: 275730

Scientific:: Haemulon melanurum
German:: Schwarzrücken-Grunzer
English:: Cottonwick Grunt

Category:
Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Haemulidae (Family) > Haemulon (Genus) > melanurum (Species)
Initial determination:: (Linnaeus, ), 1758

Occurrence:: Suriname, Columbia, French Guiana, Haiti, Costa Rica, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Venezuela, Cuba, Guatemala, Panama, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Brasilien, Cayman øerne, Dominikanske republik, Florida, Honduras, Nicaragua, USA, Vestlige Atlanterhav
Sea depth:: 3 - 50 Meter
Size:: 25 cm - 33 cm
Weight:: 0,550 kg
Temperature:: 22°C - 28°C
Food:: Detritus, Predatory, Zoobenthos, Carrion, invertebrater, Mysis, Rejer, Skaldyr, Stenrejer
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:

Haemulon album
Silber-Grunzer
Haemulon aurolineatum
Goldstreifen-Grunzer
Haemulon bonariense
Haemulon boschmae
Haemulon californiensis
Haemulon carbonarium
Caeser-Grunzer
Haemulon chrysargyreum
Gelbstreifen-Grunzer
Haemulon flaviguttatum
Haemulon flavolineatum
Franzosen-Grunzer
Haemulon macrostomum
Grunzer
Haemulon maculicauda
Haemulon melanurum
Schwarzrücken-Grunzer
Haemulon parra
Grauflossen-Grunzer
Haemulon plumierii
Haemulon schrankii
Haemulon sciurus
Blausteifen Grunzer
Haemulon scudderii
Grauer Grunzer
Haemulon serrula
Haemulon sexfasciatum
Haemulon squamipinna
Grunzer
Haemulon steindachneri
Steindachners Grunzer
Haemulon striatum
Haemulon vittatum
Grunzer

More related species in this lexicon:

Haemulon plumieri
Weißer Grunzer

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2013-03-15 21:19:38
Last edit:: 2013-03-15 21:19:38

Toxicity

This is a general hint!
Haemulon melanurum has a harmful toxin.
As a rule, animals with a harmful poison do not pose any danger in normal Aquarieaner everyday life. Read the following husbandry information and comments from aquarists who already keep Haemulon melanurum in their aquarium to get a better picture about the possible danger. However, please be careful when using Haemulon melanurum. 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

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Husbandry

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Special thanks for the pictures to J.E. Randall from Hawaii and to Johnny Jensen from Danmark.

Reports of ciguatera poisoning!

The grunt lifes in clear inshore and offshore reefs in a depth up to 50 meters.

Syononyms:
Haemulon melanura (Linnaeus, 1758)
Perca melanura Linnaeus, 1758

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