Canthidermis maculata rough trigger-fish, spotted oceanic triggerfish

Canthidermis maculata is commonly referred to as rough trigger-fish, spotted oceanic triggerfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: не подходит для аквариума!. Toxicity: Has a poison harmful to health.

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lexID:

4537 

AphiaID:

127398 

Scientific:

Canthidermis maculata 

German:

Weißtupfen-Drückerfisch, Rauher Drückerfisch 

English:

Rough Trigger-fish, Spotted Oceanic Triggerfish 

Category:

Рыбы - Спинороги 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Balistidae (Family) > Canthidermis (Genus) > maculata (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Bloch, ), 1786 

Occurrence:

West Sahara, Guadeloupe, Ghana, Eritrea, Barbados, Straße von Gibraltar, Suriname, El Salvador, Sudan, Djibouti, Benin, Gambia, Cocos Island (Costa Rica), Sint Eustatius and Saba, (the) Maldives, American Samoa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Australia, Azores, Bakers Island, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Chile, China, Christmas Islands, Circumglobal, Clipperton Island, Columbia, Comores, Congo, Cook Islands, Corea, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Galapagos Islands, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Howland Island, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Japan, Line Islands, Madagascar, Madeira, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico (East Pacific), Micronesia, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Réunion , Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé e Principé, Saudi Arabia, Scandinavia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South America, South-Africa, Spratly Islands, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, The Bahamas, the British Isles, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Cayman Islands, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Netherlands Antilles, the Seychelles, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands, USA, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, U.S., Wallis and Futuna, West Africa, Western Indian Ocean, Yemen 

Sea depth:

1 - 100 Meter 

Size:

13.78" - 19.69" (35cm - 50cm) 

Temperature:

71.6 °F - 78.8 °F (22°C - 26°C) 

Food:

Fish (little fishes), Zooplankton 

Difficulty:

не подходит для аквариума! 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Has a poison harmful to health 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Canthidermis macrolepis
  Drückerfisch
• 
  Canthidermis maculata
  Weißtupfen-Drückerfisch, Rauher Drückerfisch
• 
  Canthidermis sufflamen
  Drückerfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2012-08-13 21:56:05 

Last edit:

2020-03-30 22:21:34 

Toxicity

This is a general hint!
Canthidermis maculata has a harmful toxin.
As a rule, animals with a harmful poison do not pose mortal danger in normal Aquarieaner everyday life. Read the following husbandry information and comments from aquarists who already keep Canthidermis maculata in their aquarium to get a better picture about the possible danger. However, please be careful when using Canthidermis maculata. Every human reacts differently to poisons.
If you suspect that you have come into contact with the poison, please contact your doctor or the poison emergency call.
The phone number of the poison emergency call can be found here:
[overview_and_url_DE]
Overview Europe: European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists

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