Parapriacanthus guentheri Pigmy sweeper, Dlass fish, Red Sea Dwarf Sweeper

Parapriacanthus guentheri is commonly referred to as Pigmy sweeper, Dlass fish, Red Sea Dwarf Sweeper. 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:

10161 

AphiaID:

218697 

Scientific:

Parapriacanthus guentheri 

German:

Beilfisch, Glasfisch 

English:

Pigmy Sweeper, Dlass Fish, Red Sea Dwarf Sweeper 

Category:

Sweeper 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Pempheridae (Family) > Parapriacanthus (Genus) > guentheri (Species) 

Initial determination:

Steindachner, 1870 

Occurrence:

(the) Maldives, Admiralty Islands, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Corea, Egypt, Fiji, Gulf of Oman / Oman, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Lord Howe Island, Madagascar, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mozambique, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland (Australia), Red Sea, Réunion , South-Africa, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Taiwan, The Bangai Archipelago, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Seychelles, Timor, Togean Islands, Vietnam, Yemen 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

- 60 Meter 

Size:

up to 3.94" (10 cm) 

Temperature:

71.6 °F - 75.2 °F (22°C - 24°C) 

Food:

Amphipods, Copepods, Daphnia salina, Fish larvae, Krill, Mysis, Zooplankton 

Difficulty:

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

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Parapriacanthus dispar
  Beilfisch, Glasfisch
• 
  Parapriacanthus elongatus
  Glasfisch, Beilfisch
• Parapriacanthus marei
• 
  Parapriacanthus ransonneti
  Goldener Glasfisch

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Parapriacanthus argenteus
  Beilfisch, Glasfisch
• 
  Parapriacanthus darros
  Glasfisch, Beilfisch
• 
  Parapriacanthus guentheri
  Beilfisch, Glasfisch
• 
  Parapriacanthus kwazulu
  Beilfisch, Glasfisch
• 
  Parapriacanthus punctulatus
  Beilbauchfisch, Glasfisch
• 
  Parapriacanthus sharm
  Beilfisch, Glasfisch
• 
  Parapriacanthus sp.
  Glasfisch, Beilfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2016-11-16 13:01:49 

Last edit:

2020-02-16 22:51:29 

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