Syacium papillosum Dusky flounder

Syacium papillosumis commonly referred to as Dusky flounder. 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:

9710 

AphiaID:

158878 

Scientific:

Syacium papillosum 

German:

Scheinbutt 

English:

Dusky Flounder 

Category:

Flounders & Soles 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Pleuronectiformes (Order) > Paralichthyidae (Family) > Syacium (Genus) > papillosum (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Linnaeus, ), 1758 

Occurrence:

Suriname, Aruba, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Belize, Brazil, Columbia, Cuba, Curacao, Florida, French Guiana, Gulf of Mexico, Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, Venezuela 

Size:

7.87" - 11.81" (20cm - 30cm) 

Temperature:

14,2 °F - 82.4 °F (14,2°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Fish (little fishes), Invertebrates, Mysis, Predatory, Schrimps, Worms, Zoobenthos 

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Syacium guineensis
  Steinbutt
• Syacium gunteri
• Syacium latifrons
• Syacium longidorsale
• Syacium maculiferum
• Syacium micrurum
• Syacium ovale
• 
  Syacium papillosum
  Scheinbutt

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2016-05-15 13:13:56 

Last edit:

2016-05-15 13:13:56 

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Male

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Female

1

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