Calotomus carolinus Bucktooth, Bucktooth Parrotfish, Carolines Parrotfish, Christmas Parrotfish, Stareye Parrotfish, Starry-eye Parrotfish

Calotomus carolinus is commonly referred to as Bucktooth, Bucktooth Parrotfish, Carolines Parrotfish, Christmas Parrotfish, Stareye Parrotfish, Starry-eye Parrotfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: pas pour les débutants. A aquarium size of at least 2500 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

4016 

AphiaID:

219076 

Scientific:

Calotomus carolinus 

German:

Papageifisch 

English:

Bucktooth, Bucktooth Parrotfish, Carolines Parrotfish, Christmas Parrotfish, Stareye Parrotfish, Starry-eye Parrotfish 

Category:

Poissons-Perroquet 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scaridae (Family) > Calotomus (Genus) > carolinus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Valenciennes, ), 1840 

Occurrence:

(the) Maldives, American Samoa, Australia, Bakers Island, Cambodia, Caroline Island, Christmas Islands, Comores, Cook Islands, East Africa, Eastern Pacific Ocean, Ecuador, Fiji, French Polynesia, Galapagos Islands, Guam, Gulf of California, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Hawaii, Howland Island, India, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Japan, Johnston Atoll, Kenya, Kiribati, Line Islands, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marquesas Islands, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico (East Pacific), Micronesia, Midway Islands, Mozambique, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Phoenix Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Raja Amat, Réunion , Rodriguez, Samoa, Solomon Islands, South-Africa, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Tahiti, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, the Seychelles, Timor, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Yemen, Zanzibar 

Sea depth:

2 - 30 Meter 

Size:

up to 21.26" (54 cm) 

Temperature:

73.4 °F - 78.8 °F (23°C - 26°C) 

Food:

Algae (Algivore), Flakes, Frozen Food (large sort) 

Tank:

549.95 gal (~ 2500L)  

Difficulty:

pas pour les débutants 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Calotomus carolinus
  Papageifisch
• 
  Calotomus japonicus
  Japanischer Papageienfisch
• 
  Calotomus spinidens
  Papageifisch
• 
  Calotomus viridescens
  Grünscheckiger Papageifisch, Blattgrüner Papageifisch
• 
  Calotomus zonarchus
  Papageifisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2012-01-26 16:44:32 

Last edit:

2021-04-11 12:53:10 

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