Trachinocephalus myops snakefish, painted grinner

Trachinocephalus myops is commonly referred to as snakefish, painted grinner. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

9159 

AphiaID:

158884 

Scientific:

Trachinocephalus myops 

German:

Bemalter Eidechsenfisch 

English:

Snakefish, Painted Grinner 

Category:

 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Teleostei (Class) > Aulopiformes (Order) > Synodontidae (Family) > Trachinocephalus (Genus) > myops (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Forster, ), 1801 

Occurrence:

Djibouti, Barbados, Suriname, Eritrea, Guadeloupe, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Ghana, Sudan, Benin, Gambia, Sint Eustatius and Saba, (the) Maldives, American Samoa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Australia, Bahrain, Bakers Island, Bangladesh, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada Eastern Pacific, China, Christmas Islands, Comores, Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Guyana, Hawaii, Honduras, Howland Island, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Irak, Iran, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Johnston Atoll, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Lembeh Strait, Line Islands, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico (East Pacific), Micronesia, Montserrat, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, North Atlantic Ocean, Northern Mariana Islands, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paracel-Islands, Philippines, Phoenix Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Puerto Rico, Quatar, Réunion , Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé e Principé, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South-Africa, Spratly Islands, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, The Bahamas, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, The Gulf of Guinea, the Netherlands Antilles, the Seychelles, Timor, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, U.S., Wake Atoll, Wallis and Futuna, West-Atlantic Ocean, Yemen 

Sea depth:

0 - 430 Meter 

Habitats:

Sandy sea floors 

Size:

9.84" - 15.75" (25cm - 40cm) 

Temperature:

66.02 °F - 84.2 °F (18.9°C - 29°C) 

Food:

Carnivore, Crustaceans, Edible crab, Fish (little fishes), Predatory 

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

More related species
in this lexicon:

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  Trachinocephalus myops
  Bemalter Eidechsenfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2016-01-13 20:40:19 

Last edit:

2023-11-22 13:25:23 

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