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Cephalopholis taeniops Bluespotted seabass

Cephalopholis taeniops is commonly referred to as Bluespotted seabass. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
4625 
AphiaID:
279154 
Scientific:
Cephalopholis taeniops 
German:
Westafrikanische Juwelenbarsch 
English:
Bluespotted Seabass 
Category:
Havsaborrar 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Serranidae (Family) > Cephalopholis (Genus) > taeniops (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Valenciennes, ), 1828 
Occurrence:
Gambia, Ghana, Benin, West Sahara, Angola, Brazil, Cameroon, Congo, East-Atlantic Ocean, Equatorial Guinea, Morocco, Nigeria, São Tomé e Principé, Senegal, Sierra Leone, the Cape Verde Archipelago, The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, Togo, West-Atlantic Ocean 
Sea depth:
20 - 200 Meter 
Size:
15.75" - 27.56" (40cm - 70cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Crabs, Crustaceans, Fish (little fishes), Hermit crabs, Invertebrates, Living Food, Mantis shrimps, Predatory, Rock shrimps, Schrimps, Sepia, Worms, Zoobenthos, Zooplankton 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for home aquaria! 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Data deficient (DD) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2018-11-03 09:23:54 

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(Valenciennes, 1828)

Distribution:
Eastern Atlantic: Western Sahara to Angola, including Cape Verde and the Sao Tome and Principe islands.
Also recorded from the Mediterranean.

Biology:
Found on sandy and rocky bottoms. Protogynous hermaphrodites.

Moderate to high vulnerability

External links

  1. DATZ (Die Aquarien- und Terrarienzeitschrift) (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. First record of African Hind, Cephalopholis taeniops (Valenciennes, 1828) (Perciformes, Epinephelidae) in the South-western Atlantic (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  4. Homepage Prof. Dr. Peter Wirtz (en) (Archive.org). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  5. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  6. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  7. Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  8. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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