Mullus auratus Red goatfish

Mullus auratus is commonly referred to as Red goatfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

9748 

AphiaID:

159418 

Scientific:

Mullus auratus 

German:

Rote Meerbarbe 

English:

Red Goatfish 

Category:

Goatfishes 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Mullidae (Family) > Mullus (Genus) > auratus (Species) 

Initial determination:

Jordan & Gilbert, 1882 

Occurrence:

Barbados, Suriname, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, Canada Eastern Pacific, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Florida, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, Venezuela 

Size:

6.3" - 10.63" (16cm - 27cm) 

Temperature:

8,4 °F - 25,6 °F (8,4°C - 25,6°C) 

Food:

Invertebrates, Worms, Zoobenthos 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Mullus argentinae
• 
  Mullus auratus
  Rote Meerbarbe
• 
  Mullus barbatus
  Rotbarbe oder Rote Meerbarbe
• 
  Mullus surmuletus
  Streifenbarbe

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2016-06-02 21:30:35 

Last edit:

2016-06-02 21:30:35 

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