Monacanthus ciliatus Fringed filefish

Monacanthus ciliatus is commonly referred to as Fringed filefish. Difficulty in the aquarium: 4 - Medelsvår. A aquarium size of at least 700 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

9698 

AphiaID:

159497 

Scientific:

Monacanthus ciliatus 

German:

Feilenfisch 

English:

Fringed Filefish 

Category:

Filfiskar 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Monacanthidae (Family) > Monacanthus (Genus) > ciliatus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Mitchill, ), 1818 

Occurrence:

Barbados, Guadeloupe, Suriname, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Canada Eastern Pacific, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S. 

Sea depth:

1 - 50 Meter 

Size:

3.94" - 7.87" (10cm - 20cm) 

Temperature:

4,23 °F - 27,4 °F (4,23°C - 27,4°C) 

Food:

Algae (Algivore), Amphipods, Clams, Copepods, Coral polyps = corallivorous, Crustaceans, Invertebrates, Isopods, Krill, Mysis, Ostracodes (seed shrimps), Predatory, Schrimps, Sea squirts, Sea weed, Sponges, Worms 

Tank:

153.98 gal (~ 700L)  

Difficulty:

4 - Medelsvår 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Monacanthus chinensis
  Fächerbauch Feilenfisch
• 
  Monacanthus ciliatus
  Feilenfisch
• 
  Monacanthus tuckeri
  Schlanker Feilenfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2016-05-09 21:23:27 

Last edit:

2022-10-11 15:58:52 

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