Chilomycterus antillarum Web burrfish

Chilomycterus antillarum is commonly referred to as Web burrfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Animale per esperti!! quasi impossibile da mantenere bene. A aquarium size of at least 1500 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

2643 

AphiaID:

275240 

Scientific:

Chilomycterus antillarum 

German:

Igelfisch 

English:

Web Burrfish 

Category:

Pesci istrice 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Diodontidae (Family) > Chilomycterus (Genus) > antillarum (Species) 

Initial determination:

Jordan & Rutter, 1897 

Occurrence:

Barbados, Suriname, Guadeloupe, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Brazil, Columbia, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Florida, French Guiana, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, the British Isles, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA, Venezuela, West-Atlantic Ocean 

Sea depth:

1 - 44 Meter 

Size:

up to 11.81" (30 cm) 

Temperature:

73.4 °F - 82.4 °F (23°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Clams, Crabs, Edible crab, Frozen Food (large sort), Hermit crabs, Schrimps, Sea Cucumbers, Sea urchins, Snails, Starfishs 

Tank:

329.97 gal (~ 1500L)  

Difficulty:

Animale per esperti!! quasi impossibile da mantenere bene 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Chilomycterus antennatus
  Zügel-Igelfisch
• 
  Chilomycterus antillarum
  Igelfisch
• 
  Chilomycterus reticulatus
  Igelfisch
• 
  Chilomycterus schoepfii
  Igelfisch

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Chilomycterus mauretanicus
  "Mauretanischer Igelfisch"
• 
  Chilomycterus spinosus
  Igelfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2008-12-01 19:29:25 

Last edit:

2023-01-23 11:18:26 

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