Enchelyopus cimbrius Fourbeard rockling

Enchelyopus cimbrius is commonly referred to as Fourbeard rockling. Difficulty in the aquarium: Normaal. A aquarium size of at least 2000 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Scientific:: Enchelyopus cimbrius
German:: Vierbärtelige Seequappe
English:: Fourbeard Rockling

Category:

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Gadiformes (Order) > Lotidae (Family) > Enchelyopus (Genus) > cimbrius (Species)
Initial determination:: (Linnaeus, ), 1766

Occurrence:: Barents Sea, Bay of Biscay, Canada Eastern Pacific, East-Atlantic Ocean, European Coasts, Greenland, Gulf of Mexico, Newfoundland, North Atlantic Ocean, the British Isles, the Isle of Man, USA, West Africa
Size:: 11.81" - 16.14" (30cm - 41cm)
Temperature:: 39.2 °F - 82.4 °F (4°C - 28°C)
Food:: Amphipods, Copepods, Crabs, Crustaceans, Decapods, Edible crab, Fish (little fishes), Flatfish, Invertebrates, Isopods, Lobster eggs, Mysis, Ostracodes (seed shrimps), Rock shrimps, Schrimps, Sea squirts, Worms, Zoobenthos, Zooplankton
Tank:: 439.96 gal (~ 2000L)
Difficulty:: Normaal
Offspring:: None
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Enchelyopus cimbrius
Vierbärtelige Seequappe

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2013-01-12 19:05:11
Last edit:: 2013-01-12 19:05:11

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(Linnaeus, 1766)

Distribution:
Northwest Atlantic: northern Gulf of Mexico to Newfoundland, western Greenland. Northeast Atlantic: coasts of Europe and the British Isles from the Barents Sea to the northern Bay of Biscay.
One locality at Cape Blanc, Mauritania. Reported from Estonia.

Biology:
Sedentary bottom dwellers on muddy sand between patches of hard substrate, or on the soft, smooth ground of deep sinks on the continental slopes of both sides of the North Atlantic.
Feed on flatfishes, amphipods, decapods, copepods, mysids, shrimps, isopods and other small crustaceans. Spawn in the Baltic Sea.

Synonyms:
Couchia edwardii Couch, 1866
Gadus cimbrius Linnaeus, 1766
Gaidropsarus cimbrius (Linnaeus, 1766)
Motella caudacuta Storer, 1848
Motella cimbrica (Linnaeus, 1766)
Onos cimbrius (Linnaeus, 1766) (synonym)
Rhinonemus caudacuta (Storer, 1848)
Rhinonemus cimbrius (Linnaeus, 1766) (synonym)

External links

FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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