Fistularia petimba red cornetfish

Fistularia petimba is commonly referred to as red cornetfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

5796 

AphiaID:

159439 

Scientific:

Fistularia petimba 

German:

Rauer Flötenfisch 

English:

Red Cornetfish 

Category:

 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Syngnathiformes (Order) > Fistulariidae (Family) > Fistularia (Genus) > petimba (Species) 

Initial determination:

Lacepède, 1803 

Occurrence:

Suriname, Gambia, Sudan, West Sahara, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Kuwait, Benin, Hong Kong, Ghana, Eritrea, Djibouti, Sint Eustatius and Saba, the Black Sea, (the) Maldives, American Samoa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Australia, Azores, Bahrain, Bakers Island, Bali, Bangladesh, Barents Sea, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central America (Eastern Pacific), China, Circumtropic, Columbia, Comores, Congo, Cook Islands, Coral sea (Eastern Australia), Corea, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Africa, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Flores, Florida, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Java, Johnston Atoll, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Komodo (Komodo Island), Line Islands, Lombok, Lord Howe Island, Madagascar, Malaysia, Malpelo Island, Marquesas Islands, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Midway Islands, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Pacific Ocean, Palau, Panama, Papua, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Quatar, Queensland (Australia), Rapa, Red Sea, Réunion , Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé e Principé, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South America, South Atlantic, Spain, Spratly Islands, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Taiwan, Tansania, Tasmania (Australia), Thailand, The Bahamas, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Caribbean, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Kermadec Islands, the Mediterranean Sea, the Netherlands Antilles, The Ryukyu Islands, the Seychelles, the Society Islands, Timor, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuamoto Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Uruguay, USA, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, U.S., Wake Atoll, Wallis and Futuna, West Africa, Western Indian Ocean, Western Pacific Ocean, Yemen 

Sea depth:

10 - 200 Meter 

Size:

59.06" - 70.87" (150cm - 180cm) 

Temperature:

3,2 °F - 29,3 °F (3,2°C - 29,3°C) 

Food:

Fish (little fishes), Fish eggs, Fish larvae, Schrimps, Sepia 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Fistularia commersonii
  Weicher Flötenfisch
• 
  Fistularia corneta
  Flötenfisch
• 
  Fistularia petimba
  Rauer Flötenfisch
• 
  Fistularia tabacaria
  Blaupunkt-Flötenfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2013-07-24 03:43:01 

Last edit:

2017-03-19 23:09:26 

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