Regalecus glesne King of herrings

Regalecus glesne wird umgangssprachlich oft als Riemenfisch bezeichnet.

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lexID:

6311 

AphiaID:

126525 

Scientific:

Regalecus glesne 

German:

Riemenfisch 

English:

King Of Herrings 

Category:

Other Fishes 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Lampriformes (Order) > Regalecidae (Family) > Regalecus (Genus) > glesne (Species) 

Initial determination:

Ascanius, 1772 

Occurrence:

Benin, West Sahara, Suriname, Guadeloupe, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Gambia, El Salvador, Barbados, Ghana, Tunesien, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Arabian Sea, Argentina, Australia, Azores, Bass Strait, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Canada , Chile, China, Columbia, Comores, Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, East Africa, Eastern Pacific Ocean, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, European Coasts, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Great Australian Bigh, Greenland, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of California, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Iceland, India, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Iran, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mauritius, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Caledonia, New South Wales (Australia), New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Queensland (Australia), Réunion , Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé e Principé, Scandinavia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Australia, South-Africa, Spain, Tansania, Tasmania (Australia), The Bahamas, the British Isles, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, USA, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Victoria (Australia), Wallis and Futuna, Western Australia, Western Indian Ocean, Yemen 

Sea depth:

15 - 1000 Meter 

Size:

up to 590.55" (1500 cm) 

Weight:

272 kg 

Temperature:

°F - 80.6 °F (°C - 27°C) 

Food:

Crustaceans, Hydrozoa polyps, Invertebrates, Jellyfish, Krill, Zooplankton 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Regalecus glesne
  Riemenfisch
• Regalecus russelii

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2013-10-29 20:31:42 

Last edit:

2021-10-15 08:49:57 

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