Siphamia tubifer Tubifer cardinalfish, Urchin Cardinalfish

Siphamia tubifer is commonly referred to as Tubifer cardinalfish, Urchin Cardinalfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: 4 - Medelsvår. A aquarium size of at least 150 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

7295 

AphiaID:

277708 

Scientific:

Siphamia tubifer 

German:

Seeigel-Kardinalbarsch 

English:

Tubifer Cardinalfish, Urchin Cardinalfish 

Category:

Kardinalaborrar 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Apogonidae (Family) > Siphamia (Genus) > tubifer (Species) 

Initial determination:

Weber, 1909 

Occurrence:

(the) Maldives, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Egypt, Fiji, Guam, Gulf of Oman / Oman, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Madagascar, Micronesia, Myanmar, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Red Sea, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Western Indian Ocean, Yemen 

Sea depth:

0 - 0,100 Meter 

Size:

up to 1.97" (5 cm) 

Temperature:

71.6 °F - 82.4 °F (22°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Amphipods, Bosmiden, Brachionus, Brine Shrimp Nauplii, Brine Shrimps, Copepods, Cyclops, Daphnia salina, Invertebrates, Mysis, Zoobenthos, Zooplankton 

Tank:

33 gal (~ 150L)  

Difficulty:

4 - Medelsvår 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Siphamia arabica
• 
  Siphamia argentea
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia brevilux
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia cephalotes
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia corallicola
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia cuneiceps
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia cyanophthalma
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia elongata
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia fistulosa
  Kardinalbarsch
• Siphamia fraseri
• 
  Siphamia fuscolineata
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia goreni
  Kardinalbarsch
• Siphamia guttulata
• 
  Siphamia jebbi
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia majimai
  Leuchtkardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia mossambica
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia randalli
  Randalls Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia roseigaster
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia senoui
  Senous Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia spinicola
  Riff-Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia stenotes
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia tubifer
  Seeigel-Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia tubulata
  Kardinalbarsch
• Alle anzeigen

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Siphamia arnazae
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia papuensis
  Kardinalbarsch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2014-07-02 16:29:14 

Last edit:

2014-07-02 16:29:14 

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