Abudefduf taurus Night sergeant

Abudefduf taurusis commonly referred to as Night sergeant. 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:

8382 

AphiaID:

273701 

Scientific:

Abudefduf taurus 

German:

Feldwebelfisch 

English:

Night Sergeant 

Category:

Damselfishes 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Pomacentridae (Family) > Abudefduf (Genus) > taurus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Müller & Troschel, ), 1848 

Occurrence:

Guadeloupe, Barbados, Suriname, Gambia, Ghana, Benin, Angola, Belize, Cameroon, Columbia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Florida, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico (East Pacific), Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panama, Senegal, Sierra Leone, The Bahamas, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, Venezuela 

Marine Zone:

Intertidal (Eulittoral), intertidal zone between the high and low tide lines characterized by the alternation of low and high tides. 

Sea depth:

1 - 5 Meter 

Size:

7.87" - 9.84" (20cm - 25cm) 

Temperature:

71.6 °F - 82.4 °F (22°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Algae, Aquatic plant, Coral polyps = corallivorous, Crustaceans, Invertebrates, 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:

• 
  Abudefduf abdominalis
  Feldwebelfisch
• 
  Abudefduf bengalensis
  Bengalischer Feldwebelfisch
• 
  Abudefduf concolor
  Riffbarsch, Sergeant
• 
  Abudefduf conformis
  Marquesas Sergeant, Marquesas Riffbarsch
• 
  Abudefduf declivifrons
  Feldwebelfisch
• 
  Abudefduf hoefleri
  Afrikanischer Sergeant
• 
  Abudefduf lorenzi
  Lorenz’ Riffbarsch
• 
  Abudefduf luridus
  Kanaren-Demoiselle
• 
  Abudefduf margariteus
  Feldwebelfisch
• 
  Abudefduf natalensis
  Sergeant, Feldwebelfisch
• 
  Abudefduf notatus
  Gelbschwanz-Sergeant, Feldwebelfisch
• 
  Abudefduf saxatilis
  Gestreifter Sergeant
• 
  Abudefduf septemfasciatus
  Graustreifen-Sergant
• 
  Abudefduf sexfasciatus
  Scherenschwanz-Sergeant
• 
  Abudefduf sordidus
  Feldwebelfisch
• 
  Abudefduf sparoides
  Sergeant, Feldwebelfisch
• 
  Abudefduf taurus
  Feldwebelfisch
• 
  Abudefduf troschelii
  Panamesicher Feldwebelfisch
• 
  Abudefduf vaigiensis
  Indo-Pazifischer Feldwebelfisch
• 
  Abudefduf whitleyi
  Whitleys Sergeant
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More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Abudefduf sexfasciatus X Abudefduf margariteus
  Hybride Abudefduf sexfasciatus X Abudefduf margariteus

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2015-05-09 12:05:06 

Last edit:

2015-05-09 12:05:06 

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