Chelon auratus Golden grey mullet

Chelon auratus is commonly referred to as Golden grey mullet. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

4934 

AphiaID:

1044127 

Scientific:

Chelon auratus 

German:

Gold-Meeräsche 

English:

Golden Grey Mullet 

Category:

 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Teleostei (Class) > Mugiliformes (Order) > Mugilidae (Family) > Chelon (Genus) > auratus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Risso, ), 1810 

Occurrence:

Russland, Straße von Gibraltar, the Black Sea, the North Sea, Algeria, Azores, East-Atlantic Ocean, Egypt, European Coasts, Israel, Madeira, Morocco, Portugal, Scandinavia, Spain, the British Isles, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Isle of Man, the Mediterranean Sea 

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:

10 - 20 Meter 

Habitats:

Brackish water, Freshwater, Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

11.81" - 23.23" (30cm - 59cm) 

Temperature:

°F - 86 °F (°C - 30°C) 

Food:

Algae (Algivore), Amphipods, Aquatic plant, Copepods, Daphnia salina, Detritus, Insects, Invertebrates, Ostracodes (seed shrimps), Phytoplankton, Sea squirts, Snails, Worms, Zoobenthos, Zooplankton 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Chelon bispinosus
• 
  Chelon labrosus
  Dicklippige Meeräsche
• Chelon macrolepis
• Chelon melinopterus
• Chelon parsia
• Chelon subviridis

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Chelon auratus
  Gold-Meeräsche

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2013-01-02 19:01:33 

Last edit:

2024-05-04 21:10:33 

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