Gobiesox strumosus Skilletfish

Gobiesox strumosusis commonly referred to as Skilletfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Pauline Walsh Jacobson, USA

Skilletfish, (Clingfish) Gobiesox strumosus, 2019

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Scientific:: Gobiesox strumosus
German:: Schildbauch
English:: Skilletfish

Category:: Clingfishes

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Gobiesociformes (Order) > Gobiesocidae (Family) > Gobiesox (Genus) > strumosus (Species)
Initial determination:: Cope, 1870

Occurrence:: Bermuda, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Honduras, North Atlantic Ocean, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, 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:: 0,5 - 60 Meter
Size:: 1.57" - 3.15" (4,0cm - 8cm)
Temperature:: 75.2 °F - 82.4 °F (24°C - 28°C)
Food:: Carnivore, Crustaceans, Worms
Difficulty:: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully
Offspring:: Not available as offspring
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Least concern (LC)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Gobiesox adustus
Schildbauch
Gobiesox aethus
Gobiesox barbatulus
Gobiesox canidens
Gobiesox cephalus
Gobiesox crassicorpus
Gobiesox daedaleus
Gobiesox eugrammus
Gobiesox fluviatilis
Gobiesox fulvus
Gobiesox juniperoserrai
Gobiesox juradoensis
Gobiesox lucayanus
Gobiesox maeandricus
Nördlicher Schildbauch
Gobiesox marijeanae
Gobiesox marmoratus
Gobiesox mexicanus
Gobiesox milleri
Gobiesox multitentaculus
Gobiesox nigripinnis
Gobiesox papillifer
Gobiesox pinniger
Gobiesox potamius
Gobiesox punctulatus
Schildbauch
Gobiesox rhessodon
Kalifornischer Schildbauch
Gobiesox schultzi
Gobiesox stenocephalus
Gobiesox strumosus
Schildbauch
Gobiesox woodsi

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2020-01-05 19:43:35
Last edit:: 2020-02-09 10:40:00

Info

Gobiesox strumosus Cope, 1870

Skilletfish primarily feed on bristle worms and small crustaceans such as amphipods and isopods.

Synonymised names:
Cotylis fimbriata Müller & Troschel, 1849
Gobiesox sanctimartini Metzelaar, 1919
Gobiesox virgatulus Jordan & Gilbert, 1882
Gobiesox yuma Nichols, 1917

Scientific paper

Dissolved Oxygen Requirements of Newly-Hatched Larvae of the Striped Blenny (Chasmodes bosquianus), the Naked Goby (Gobiosoma bosci), and the Skilletfish (Gobiesox strumosus), Vishnu P. Saksena and Edwin B. Joseph, 1972
Larval development of clingfish,Gobiesox strumosus, 4.0 to 12.0 millimeters total length, W. L. Dovel, 1963

External links

Encyclodedia of Life (EOL) (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Skilletfish, (Clingfish) Gobiesox strumosus on Black Sea Squirt, Phallusia nigra, Florida 2019

Skilletfish, (Clingfish) Gobiesox strumosus, 2019

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