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Umbrina canariensis Canary drum

Umbrina canariensisis commonly referred to as Canary drum. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
8209 
AphiaID:
127011 
Scientific:
Umbrina canariensis 
German:
Umberfisch 
English:
Canary Drum 
Category:
Croaker  
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Sciaenidae (Family) > Umbrina (Genus) > canariensis (Species) 
Initial determination:
Valenciennes, 1843 
Occurrence:
Gambia, Ghana, Benin, West Sahara, Straße von Gibralta, Algeria, Angola, Bay of Biscay, Cameroon, Congo, East Africa, East-Atlantic Ocean, Equatorial Guinea, Gulf of Oman / Oman, India, Indian Ocean, Iran, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Portugal, Réunion , São Tomé e Principé, Somalia, South-Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tansania, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, Togo, Western Indian Ocean, Yemen 
Size:
15.75" - 31.5" (40cm - 80cm) 
Temperature:
59 °F - 78.8 °F (15°C - 26°C) 
Food:
Crustaceans, Krill, Mysis, Rock shrimps, Schrimps, Worms, Zoobenthos 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for home aquaria! 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Umbrina analis
  • Umbrina broussonnetii
  • Umbrina bussingi
  • Umbrina canariensis
    Umberfisch
  • Umbrina canosai
  • Umbrina cirrosa
  • Umbrina coroides
  • Umbrina dorsalis
  • Umbrina galapagorum
  • Umbrina imberbis
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2015-03-29 18:41:07 

Info

Valenciennes, 1843

Habitat: shelf and upper slope waters from 50 to 300 m depth, over mud and sand bottoms; juveniles near shore.
The fish feed on small shrimps, worms and other bottom invertebrates

Best left in the wild.

Synonym:
Aspitrigla obscura (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Chelidonichthys obscura (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Trigla obscura Walbaum, 1792

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Scorpaeniformes (Order) > Triglidae (Family) > Chelidonichthys (Genus) > Chelidonichthys obscurus (Species)

Scientific paper

  1. Regional variation in the life history of the canary drum Umbrina canariensis (Sciaenidae), in South African waters, Kenneth Hutchings; Marc H. Griffiths; John G. Field, 2006

External links

  1. FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Marine Species Identification Portal (en) (Archive.org). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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