Chloroscombrus chrysurus Atlantic bumper

Chloroscombrus chrysurus is commonly referred to as Atlantic bumper. Difficulty in the aquarium: suitable for large display tanks (public aquarium or zoo) only. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

15650 

AphiaID:

159483 

Scientific:

Chloroscombrus chrysurus 

German:

Atlantische Stachelmakrele 

English:

Atlantic Bumper 

Category:

Horsmakrelen/Franjevis 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Teleostei (Class) > Carangiformes (Order) > Carangidae (Family) > Chloroscombrus (Genus) > chrysurus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Linnaeus, ), 1766 

Occurrence:

Barbados, Guadeloupe, Suriname, Gambia, Benin, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Columbia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East cost of USA, Equatorial Guinea, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Maine, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Liberia, Martinique, Mauritania, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North-West-Atlantic, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé e Principé, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, The Bahamas, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S., West-Atlantic Ocean 

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:

0 - 110 Meter 

Habitats:

Brackish water 

Size:

9.84" - 25.59" (25cm - 65cm) 

Weight:

121 g 

Temperature:

°F - 78.8 °F (°C - 26°C) 

Food:

Carnivore, Fish (little fishes), Predatory, Sepia, Zooplankton 

Difficulty:

suitable for large display tanks (public aquarium or zoo) only 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Near threatened (NT) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Chloroscombrus chrysurus
  Atlantische Stachelmakrele
• Chloroscombrus orqueta

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2023-03-28 20:06:35 

Last edit:

2023-03-31 12:01:19 

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