Pterois volitans

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lexID:

54 

AphiaID:

159559 

Scientific:

Pterois volitans 

German:

Rotfeuerfisch 

English:

Red Lionfish, Butterfly Cod, Butterfly-cod, Featherfins, Fire Fish, Lionfish, Ornate Butterfly-cod, Red Firefish, Scorpion-cod, Turkeyfish, Turkey-fish, Zebrafish, Common Lionfish 

Category:

Stenfisk 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Scorpaeniformes (Order) > Scorpaenidae (Family) > Pterois (Genus) > volitans (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Linnaeus, ), 1758 

Occurrence:

Marquesas Islands, Gilbert Islands, Norfolk Island, Hong Kong, Western Australia, Lesser Sunda Islands, Bakers Island, Spratly Islands, Lord Howe Island, Costa Rica, Nauru, Tuvalu, Niue, Haiti, East cost of USA, Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Cambodia, Austral Islands, New South Wales (Australia), Vietnam, Northern Territory (Australia), Howland Island, Panama, Jamaica, Phoenix Islands, the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Tokelau, the Society Islands, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Eastern Indian Ocean, Paracel-Islands, Kiribati, Raja Amat, Line Islands, Wallis and Futuna, Ogasawara Islands, India, Papua, Columbia, Amerikansk Samoa, Andamanhavet, Antigua og Barbuda, Australien, Bahamas, Bali, Banggai øer, Belize, Bermuda, Brasilien, Cayman øerne, Cook øerne, Curacao, Dominikanske republik, Fiji, Filippinerne, Florida, Fransk Polynesien, Guam, Honduras, Indiske ocean, Indo Stillehavet, Indonesien, Japan, Juleøerne, Kina, Korea, Malaysia, Marshall øerne, Mexikanske golf, Mikronesien , New Zealand, Nicaragua, Ny Kaledonien, Palau, Papua NeuGuinea , Pitcairns øgruppen, Queensland, Ryukyu øerne, Rødehavet, Salomonøerne, Samoa, Singapore, Sumatra, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor, Togian, Tonga, Tuamotuøerne, Turks og Caicos øerne, Vanuatu , Vestlige Atlanterhav 

Sea depth:

2 - 55 Meter 

Size:

bis zu 38cm 

Temperature:

22°C - 28°C 

Food:

Predatory, Krabber, Levende foder, Rejer, Små fisk 

Tank:

~ 1000 Liter 

Difficulty:

Only for advanced aquarists 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Pterois andover
  Andover-Rotfeuerfisch
• 
  Pterois antennata
  Antennen-Feuerfisch
• Pterois brevipectoralis
• 
  Pterois lunulata
  Japanischer Feuerfisch
• 
  Pterois miles
  Rotfeuerfisch
• 
  Pterois mombasae
  Afrikanischer Feuerfisch
• 
  Pterois radiata
  Strahlen-Rotfeuerfisch
• 
  Pterois russelii
  Russels Feuerfisch
• 
  Pterois sphex
  Hawaii-Feuerfisch
• 
  Pterois volitans
  Rotfeuerfisch

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Pterois cincta
  Rotmeer-Skorpionsfisch
• 
  Pterois n sp.
  Feuerfisch
• 
  Pterois paucispinula
  Skorpionsfisch, Rotfeuerfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2004-08-20 17:29:48 

Last edit:

2020-04-24 17:32:10 

Toxicity

Pterois volitans is (very) poisonous and the poison can kill you under circumstances!!!
If you want to keep Pterois volitans, inform yourself about the poison and its effects before buying. Keep a note with the telephone number of the poison emergency call and all necessary information about the animal next to your aquarium so that you can be helped quickly in an emergency.
The telephone numbers of the poison emergency call can be found here:
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Overview Worldwide: eapcct.org

This message appears for poisonous, very poisonous and also animals whose poison can kill you immediately. Every human reacts differently to poisons. Please therefore weigh the risk for yourself AND your environment very carefully, and never act lightly!

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