Plectropomus punctatus Marbled coralgrouper

Plectropomus punctatus is commonly referred to as Marbled coralgrouper. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

8551 

AphiaID:

218268 

Scientific:

Plectropomus punctatus 

German:

Afrikanischer Forellenbarsch 

English:

Marbled Coralgrouper 

Category:

Groupers 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Serranidae (Family) > Plectropomus (Genus) > punctatus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Quoy & Gaimard, ), 1824 

Occurrence:

Comores, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Somalia, South-Africa, Tansania, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Seychelles, Yemen 

Sea depth:

3 - 62 Meter 

Size:

up to 37.8" (96 cm) 

Temperature:

68 °F - 82.4 °F (20°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Big fish, Fish (little fishes), Predatory 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Plectropomus areolatus
  Dunkelflossen-Forellenbarsch
• 
  Plectropomus laevis
  Sattel-Forellenbarsch
• 
  Plectropomus leopardus
  Leopardforellenbarsch
• 
  Plectropomus maculatus
  Kinnstreifen-Forellenbarsch, Flecken-Forellenbarsch
• 
  Plectropomus oligacanthus
  Blaustreifen-Forellenbarsch
• 
  Plectropomus pessuliferus
  Panther-Forellenbarsch
• 
  Plectropomus punctatus
  Afrikanischer Forellenbarsch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2015-07-05 13:11:57 

Last edit:

2017-01-05 17:55:04 

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