Carapus acus pearfish

Carapus acus is commonly referred to as pearfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

3505 

AphiaID:

126661 

Scientific:

Carapus acus 

German:

Perlfisch 

English:

Pearfish 

Category:

 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Ophidiiformes (Order) > Carapidae (Family) > Carapus (Genus) > acus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Brünnich, ), 1768 

Occurrence:

Straße von Gibraltar, West Sahara, Gambia, Tunesien, Benin, Ghana, the Black Sea, Algeria, Angola, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Azores, Cameroon, Congo, East-Atlantic Ocean, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Israel, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, São Tomé e Principé, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South-Africa, the Canary Islands, The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, Tonga, West Africa 

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:

1 - 150 Meter 

Habitats:

Epibiont (living on other organisms), Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

20,8 cm 

Temperature:

14,8 °F - 27,6 °F (14,8°C - 27,6°C) 

Food:

Carnivore, Commensalism, Fish (little fishes), Invertebrates 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for aquarium keeping 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Carapus acus
  Perlfisch
• Carapus bermudensis
• Carapus dubius
• Carapus mourlani
• Carapus sluiteri

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2011-01-06 11:03:31 

Last edit:

2025-02-25 21:41:43 

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