Canthidermis maculata rough trigger-fish, spotted oceanic triggerfish

Canthidermis maculata is commonly referred to as rough trigger-fish, spotted oceanic triggerfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Pas pour l'aquarium!. Toxicity: Has a poison harmful to health.

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lexID:

4537 

AphiaID:

127398 

Scientific:

Canthidermis maculata 

German:

Weißtupfen-Drückerfisch, Rauher Drückerfisch 

English:

Rough Trigger-fish, Spotted Oceanic Triggerfish 

Category:

Ballistes 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Balistidae (Family) > Canthidermis (Genus) > maculata (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Bloch, ), 1786 

Occurrence:

West Sahara, Guadeloupe, Ghana, Eritrea, Barbados, Suriname, El Salvador, Straße von Gibraltar, Sudan, Djibouti, Benin, Gambia, Cocos Island (Costa Rica), Sint Eustatius and Saba, (the) Maldives, American Samoa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Australia, Azores, Bakers Island, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Chile, China, Christmas Islands, Circumglobal, Clipperton Island, Columbia, Comores, Congo, Cook Islands, Corea, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Galapagos Islands, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Howland Island, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Japan, Line Islands, Madagascar, Madeira, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico (East Pacific), Micronesia, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Réunion , Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé e Principé, Saudi Arabia, Scandinavia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South America, South-Africa, Spratly Islands, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, The Bahamas, the British Isles, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Cayman Islands, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Netherlands Antilles, the Seychelles, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands, USA, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, U.S., Wallis and Futuna, West Africa, Western Indian Ocean, Yemen 

Sea depth:

1 - 100 Meter 

Size:

13.78" - 19.69" (35cm - 50cm) 

Temperature:

71.6 °F - 78.8 °F (22°C - 26°C) 

Food:

Fish (little fishes), Zooplankton 

Difficulty:

Pas pour l'aquarium! 

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:

• 
  Canthidermis macrolepis
  Drückerfisch
• 
  Canthidermis maculata
  Weißtupfen-Drückerfisch, Rauher Drückerfisch
• 
  Canthidermis sufflamen
  Drückerfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2012-08-13 21:56:05 

Last edit:

2020-03-30 22:21:34 

Poison

Attention! Canthidermis maculata 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 Canthidermis maculata pour pouvoir mieux évaluer une possibilité de danger. Soyez prudents avec Canthidermis maculata. 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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