Phaeoptyx pigmentaria Dusky cardinalfish

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

Profile

lexID:

7008 

AphiaID:

282227 

Scientific:

Phaeoptyx pigmentaria 

German:

Kardinalbarsch 

English:

Dusky Cardinalfish 

Category:

Cardinalfishes 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Apogonidae (Family) > Phaeoptyx (Genus) > pigmentaria (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Poey, ), 1860 

Occurrence:

Suriname, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East-Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico (East Pacific), Puerto Rico, South America, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, The Gulf of Guinea, USA, Venezuela, West Africa, West-Atlantic Ocean 

Sea depth:

0 - 55 Meter 

Size:

up to 3.15" (8 cm) 

Temperature:

71.6 °F - 82.4 °F (22°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Amphipods, Brine Shrimp Nauplii, Brine Shrimps, Copepods, Cyclops, Daphnia salina, Frozen food (small sorts), Krill, Mysis, Zooplankton 

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:

• 
  Phaeoptyx conklini
  Gepunkteter Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Phaeoptyx pigmentaria
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Phaeoptyx xenus
  "Schwamm"-Kardinalbarsch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2014-04-13 17:08:15 

Last edit:

2014-04-13 17:08:15 

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