Brotula barbata Goatsbeard Brotula, Atlantic Bearded Brotula, Sugarfish

Brotula barbatais commonly referred to as Goatsbeard Brotula, Atlantic Bearded Brotula, Sugarfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

4388 

AphiaID:

159067 

Scientific:

Brotula barbata 

German:

Bartmännchen 

English:

Goatsbeard Brotula, Atlantic Bearded Brotula, Sugarfish 

Category:

Fishcusk-eel  

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Ophidiiformes (Order) > Ophidiidae (Family) > Brotula (Genus) > barbata (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Bloch & Schneider, ), 1801 

Occurrence:

West Sahara, Benin, Ghana, Suriname, Gambia, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Angola, Anguilla, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Congo, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Africa, French Guiana, Gabon, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Honduras, India, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Japan, Lord Howe Island, Mauritania, Montserrat, Nigeria, Pitcairn Islands, Red Sea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé e Principé, Senegal, Sierra Leone, the British Isles, the Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Venezuela 

Sea depth:

1 - 650 Meter 

Size:

up to 78.74" (200 cm) 

Weight:

8.5 kg 

Temperature:

32 °F - 77 °F (0°C - 25°C) 

Food:

Crabs, Crustaceans, Edible crab, Fish (little fishes), Hermit crabs, Lobster, Mantis shrimps, Rock lobster, Schrimps, Snails 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for aquarium keeping 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Brotula barbata
  Bartmännchen
• Brotula clarkae
• Brotula flaviviridis
• 
  Brotula multibarbata
  Ziegenbart-Brotula, Bärtiges Bartmännchen
• Brotula ordwayi
• Brotula townsendi

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2012-05-15 08:30:01 

Last edit:

2022-10-25 14:21:17 

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