Stephanolepis hispida Planehead filefish

Stephanolepis hispidais commonly referred to as Planehead filefish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not for beginners. A aquarium size of at least 2500 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

3771 

AphiaID:

307126 

Scientific:

Stephanolepis hispida 

German:

Brauner Feilenfisch 

English:

Planehead Filefish 

Category:

Filefishes 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopteri (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Monacanthidae (Family) > Stephanolepis (Genus) > hispida (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Linnaeus, ), 1766 

Occurrence:

Barbados, Suriname, Guadeloupe, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada , Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East-Atlantic Ocean, French Guiana, Grenada, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Jamaica, Madeira, Martinique, Montserrat, Morocco, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé e Principé, Senegal, Sierra Leone, The Bahamas, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Cayman Islands, The Gulf of Guinea, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay, USA, Virgin Islands, U.S., West-Atlantic Ocean 

Sea depth:

0 - 293 Meter 

Size:

up to 11.02" (28 cm) 

Temperature:

50.36 °F - 27, °F (10.2°C - 27,°C) 

Food:

Aiptasia, Invertebrates 

Tank:

549.95 gal (~ 2500L)  

Difficulty:

Not for beginners 

Offspring:

Possible to breed 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Stephanolepis auratus
• 
  Stephanolepis cirrhifer
  Feilenfisch
• 
  Stephanolepis diaspros
  Feilenfisch
• Stephanolepis hispidus
• 
  Stephanolepis setifer
  Feilenfisch

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Stephanolepis aurata
  Feilenfisch
• 
  Stephanolepis hispida
  Brauner Feilenfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2011-07-05 08:09:14 

Last edit:

2021-11-04 13:40:28 

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