Anisotremus virginicus Porkfish, Atlantic porkfish Sweetlip, Dogfish, Paragrate Grunt

Anisotremus virginicus is commonly referred to as Porkfish, Atlantic porkfish Sweetlip, Dogfish, Paragrate Grunt. Difficulty in the aquarium: suitable for large display tanks (public aquarium or zoo) only. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

131 

AphiaID:

279625 

Scientific:

Anisotremus virginicus 

German:

Virginia-Grunzer, Schweins-Grunzer 

English:

Porkfish, Atlantic Porkfish Sweetlip, Dogfish, Paragrate Grunt 

Category:

 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Haemulidae (Family) > Anisotremus (Genus) > virginicus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Linnaeus, ), 1758 

Occurrence:

Suriname, Guadeloupe, Barbados, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Florida, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, 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, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S., West-Atlantic Ocean 

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:

2 - 70 Meter 

Habitats:

Coral reefs, Reef-associated, Seawater, Sea water, Stony soils 

Size:

9.84" - 15.75" (25cm - 40,6cm) 

Weight:

930 g 

Temperature:

24,9 °F - 82.4 °F (24,9°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Carnivore, Clams, Crustaceans, Predatory, Sea Cucumbers, Sea urchins, Snails, Starfishs, Worms, Zoobenthos 

Difficulty:

suitable for large display tanks (public aquarium or zoo) only 

Offspring:

Possible to breed 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Anisotremus caesius
  Silbergrauer Grunzer
• 
  Anisotremus davidsonii
  Grunzer
• 
  Anisotremus interruptus
  Langgestreckter Grunzer
• 
  Anisotremus scapularis
  Grunzer
• 
  Anisotremus surinamensis
  Surinam-Grunzer
• 
  Anisotremus taeniatus
  Panama-Grunzer
• 
  Anisotremus virginicus
  Virginia-Grunzer, Schweins-Grunzer

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Anisotremus espinozai
  Zapatilla Grunzer, Santa Cruz Grunzer

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2004-08-22 23:16:18 

Last edit:

2024-10-28 16:19:52 

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