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Dactylopterus volitans Flying gurnard

Dactylopterus volitans is commonly referred to as Flying gurnard. Difficulty in the aquarium: Experts only! Very hard to keep. A aquarium size of at least 1500 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.


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lexID:
1333 
AphiaID:
127232 
Scientific:
Dactylopterus volitans 
German:
Flughahn 
English:
Flying Gurnard 
Category:
Flying gurnards 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Scorpaeniformes (Order) > Dactylopteridae (Family) > Dactylopterus (Genus) > volitans (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Linnaeus, ), 1758 
Occurrence:
Barbados, Suriname, Russland, the Black Sea, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Azores, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada Eastern Pacific, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Djibouti, Dominica, East-Atlantic Ocean, French Guiana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Maine, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Israel, Jamaica, Madeira, Nicaragua, North Atlantic Ocean, Panama, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé e Principé, Spain, The Bahamas, the British Isles, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S., West-Atlantic Ocean 
Sea depth:
1 - 100 Meter 
Habitats:
Brackish water, Coral reefs, Muddy grounds, Reef-associated, Sandy sea floors, Seawater, Sea water 
Size:
7.48" - 19.69" (19,5cm - 50cm) 
Weight:
1.8 kg 
Temperature:
13,3 °F - 27,8 °F (13,3°C - 27,8°C) 
Food:
Carnivore, Clams, Crustaceans, Fish (little fishes), Food specialist, Invertebrates, Krill, Mysis, Nekton, Predatory, Schrimps, Snails, Zoobenthos, Zooplankton 
Tank:
329.97 gal (~ 1500L)  
Difficulty:
Experts only! Very hard to keep 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Least concern (LC)  
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2026-06-21 13:33:49 

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Dactylopterus volitans (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonymised names
Callionymus pelagicus Rafinesque, 1818 · unaccepted
Cephalacanthus spinarella (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted
Cephalacanthus volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted
Dactilopterus volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Dactylopterus blochii Swainson, 1839 · unaccepted
Dactylopterus communis Gistel, 1848 · unaccepted
Dactylopterus fasciatus Swainson, 1839 · unaccepted
Dactylopterus occidentalis Swainson, 1839 · unaccepted
Dactylopterus spinarella (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted
Dactylopterus tentaculatus Swainson, 1839 · unaccepted
Dactylopterus vulgaris Steindachner, 1867 · unaccepted
Gasterosteus spinarella Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted
Gonocephalus macrocephalus Gronow, 1854 · unaccepted
Polynemus sexradiatus Mitchill, 1818 · unaccepted
Trigla fasciata Bloch & Schneider, 1801 · unaccepted
Trigla volitans Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted

External links

  1. FishBase (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Flughahn (Dactylopterus volitans)
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Flughahn, Dactylopterus volitans
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Copyright Wolfram Sander, Havana, Kuba
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copyright Prof. Dr. Robert A. Patzner
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Dactylopterus volitans - Helm-Knurrhahn - Oktober 2006 - Indonesia - North-Sulawesi - P. Gangga - Canon DIGITAL IXUS 700
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