Canthidermis sufflamen dark-colored triggerfishes

Canthidermis sufflamen is commonly referred to as dark-colored triggerfishes. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. A aquarium size of at least 2500 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Has a poison harmful to health.

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lexID:

5049 

AphiaID:

127399 

Scientific:

Canthidermis sufflamen 

German:

Drückerfisch 

English:

Dark-colored Triggerfishes 

Category:

Avtrekkerfisk  

Family tree:

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

Initial determination:

(Mitchill, ), 1815 

Occurrence:

Barbados, Guadeloupe, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Azores, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada Eastern Pacific, Columbia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East-Atlantic Ocean, Equatorial Guinea, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Madeira, Martinique, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé e Principé, The Bahamas, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S., West-Atlantic Ocean 

Sea depth:

5 - 60 Meter 

Size:

up to 25.59" (65 cm) 

Temperature:

73.4 °F - 78.8 °F (23°C - 26°C) 

Food:

Cnidaria, Crabs, Edible crab, Invertebrates, Jellyfish, Rock shrimps, Schrimps, Sea urchins, Snails, Zoobenthos 

Tank:

549.95 gal (~ 2500L)  

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

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:

2013-01-20 13:56:12 

Last edit:

2020-03-30 22:29:01 

Toxicity

This is a general hint!
Canthidermis sufflamen 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 sufflamen in their aquarium to get a better picture about the possible danger. However, please be careful when using Canthidermis sufflamen. 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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