Stephanolepis setifer Pygmy filefish

Stephanolepis setifer is commonly referred to as Pygmy filefish. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

9720 

AphiaID:

159500 

Scientific:

Stephanolepis setifer 

German:

Feilenfisch 

English:

Pygmy Filefish 

Category:

Filfisk 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Monacanthidae (Family) > Stephanolepis (Genus) > setifer (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Bennett, ), 1831 

Occurrence:

Barbados, Guadeloupe, Suriname, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, 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, South America, The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, U.S. 

Sea depth:

- 80 Meter 

Size:

3.94" - 7.87" (10cm - 20cm) 

Temperature:

23,7 °F - 27,7 °F (23,7°C - 27,7°C) 

Food:

Algae (Algivore), Coral polyps = corallivorous, Crustaceans, Invertebrates, Sponges 

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Stephanolepis auratus
• 
  Stephanolepis cirrhifer
  Feilenfisch
• 
  Stephanolepis diaspros
  Feilenfisch
• Stephanolepis hispidus
• 
  Stephanolepis setifer
  Feilenfisch

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Stephanolepis aurata
  Feilenfisch
• 
  Stephanolepis hispida
  Brauner Feilenfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2016-05-20 21:24:57 

Last edit:

2020-04-26 22:00:55 

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