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Acanthostracion polygonium Honeycomb cowfish

Acanthostracion polygonium is commonly referred to as Honeycomb cowfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Pour aquariophiles éprouvés. A aquarium size of at least 2000 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Has a poison harmful to health.


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lexID:
3245 
AphiaID:
1577312 
Scientific:
Acanthostracion polygonium 
German:
Waben-Kofferfisch 
English:
Honeycomb Cowfish 
Category:
Poissons-Coffres 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Teleostei (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Ostraciidae (Family) > Acanthostracion (Genus) > polygonium (Species) 
Initial determination:
Poey, 1876 
Occurrence:
Guadeloupe, Suriname, Barbados, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Columbia, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Florida, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South-Africa, The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S., West-Atlantic Ocean 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
3 - 80 Meter 
Size:
up to 19.69" (50 cm) 
Temperature:
73.4 °F - 80.6 °F (23°C - 27°C) 
Food:
Brine Shrimps, Coral polyps = corallivorous, Krill, Rock shrimps, Schrimps, Sponges 
Tank:
439.96 gal (~ 2000L)  
Difficulty:
Pour aquariophiles éprouvés 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Has a poison harmful to health 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Least concern (LC)  
Related species at
Catalog of Life
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More related species
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2024-05-05 13:10:13 

Poison

Attention! Acanthostracion polygonium possède un venin nocif pour votre santé. Normalement les espèces de cette catégorie n’émettent pas de danger pour vous. Lisez bien les informations et les commentaires des utilisateurs qui possèdent Acanthostracion polygonium pour pouvoir mieux évaluer une possibilité de danger. Soyez prudents avec Acanthostracion polygonium. Chaque humain réagit différemment sur des venins. Si vous pensez d'avoir été en contact avec le venin consultez un médecin ou un centre antipoison. Le numéro des centres A
s
antipoison sont trouvables ici: European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists

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Acanthostracion polygonium Poey, 1876

Acanthostracion polygonium lives in the coral reefs of the Caribbean Sea. Their diet consists mainly of sponges, leather corals, tunicates, and shrimp.

Synonymised names
Acanthostracion poligonos Poey, 1876 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Acanthostracion polygonia Poey, 1876 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Acanthostracion polygonius Poey, 1876 · unaccepted
Lactophrys polygonia (Poey, 1876) · unaccepted
Lactophrys polygonius (Poey, 1876) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Lactophrys saxatilis Mowbray, 1931 · unaccepted

External links

  1. FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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