Cleidopus gloriamaris Australian Pine Cone Fish, Coat-of-mail Fish, Knight Fish, Knightfish, Knight-fish, Mailfish, Pineapple Fish, Pineapplefish, Pineapple-fish, Pineconefish, Port and Starboard Light Fish, Port and Starboard Lightfish, Port-and-starboard Lightfish, West Australian Knight Fish

Cleidopus gloriamarisis commonly referred to as Australian Pine Cone Fish, Coat-of-mail Fish, Knight Fish, Knightfish, Knight-fish, Mailfish, Pineapple Fish, Pineapplefish, Pineapple-fish, Pineconefish, Port and Starboard Light Fish, Port and Starboard Lightfish, Port-and-starboard Lightfish, West Australian Knight Fish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not for beginners. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

5789 

AphiaID:

277489 

Scientific:

Cleidopus gloriamaris 

German:

Tannenzapfenfisch 

English:

Australian Pine Cone Fish, Coat-of-mail Fish, Knight Fish, Knightfish, Knight-fish, Mailfish, Pineapple Fish, Pineapplefish, Pineapple-fish, Pineconefish, Port And Starboard Light Fish, Port And Starboard Lightfish, Port-and-starboard Lightfish, West Australian Knight Fish 

Category:

Pineapplefishes 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Beryciformes (Order) > Monocentridae (Family) > Cleidopus (Genus) > gloriamaris (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Powell, ), 1938 

Occurrence:

Bass Strait, Coral sea (Eastern Australia), Eastern Indian Ocean, Endemic species, Lord Howe Island, New South Wales (Australia), Queensland (Australia), Tasmania (Australia), Western Australia 

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:

6 - 200 Meter 

Size:

8.66" - 9.84" (22cm - 25cm) 

Temperature:

50 °F - 82.4 °F (10°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Crustaceans, Krill, Mysis, Rock shrimps, Schrimps 

Difficulty:

Not for beginners 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

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  Cleidopus gloriamaris
  Tannenzapfenfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2013-07-22 18:35:55 

Last edit:

2020-05-23 12:21:41 

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