Cryptotomus roseus Bluelip parrotfish

Cryptotomus roseus is commonly referred to as Bluelip parrotfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Middels. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

9635 

AphiaID:

277118 

Scientific:

Cryptotomus roseus 

German:

Papageifisch 

English:

Bluelip Parrotfish 

Category:

Papegøyefisk 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scaridae (Family) > Cryptotomus (Genus) > roseus (Species) 

Initial determination:

Cope, 1871 

Occurrence:

Suriname, Barbados, Guadeloupe, 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 Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S. 

Sea depth:

0 - 3060 Meter 

Size:

3.94" - 5.12" (10cm - 13cm) 

Temperature:

23,8 °F - 27,5 °F (23,8°C - 27,5°C) 

Food:

Algae (Algivore), Aquatic plant, Sea weed 

Difficulty:

Middels 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

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  Cryptotomus roseus
  Papageifisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2016-04-11 19:11:26 

Last edit:

2017-05-05 09:36:23 

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