Eucinostomus melanopterus Flagfin mojarra

Eucinostomus melanopterus is commonly referred to as Flagfin mojarra. 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:

6700 

AphiaID:

276423 

Scientific:

Eucinostomus melanopterus 

German:

Riffbarsch 

English:

Flagfin Mojarra 

Category:

Mojarra's 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Gerreidae (Family) > Eucinostomus (Genus) > melanopterus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Bleeker, ), 1863 

Occurrence:

Suriname, Benin, Gambia, Barbados, Ghana, Angola, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Cameroon, Columbia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Africa, East-Atlantic Ocean, Equatorial Guinea, Florida, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico (East Pacific), Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panama, Puerto Rico, São Tomé e Principé, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South America, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Caribbean, Togo, USA, Venezuela, 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 - 25 Meter 

Size:

9.06" - 11.81" (23cm - 30cm) 

Temperature:

74.12 °F - 82.4 °F (23.4°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Algae (Algivore), Aquatic plant, Clams, Crustaceans, Detritus, Fish (little fishes), Insects, Invertebrates, Isopods, Ostracodes (seed shrimps), Rock shrimps, Schrimps, Snails, Worms, Zoobenthos, 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:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Eucinostomus argenteus
• Eucinostomus currani
• Eucinostomus dowii
• Eucinostomus entomelas
• Eucinostomus gracilis
• Eucinostomus gula
• Eucinostomus harengulus
• Eucinostomus havana
• Eucinostomus jonesii
• 
  Eucinostomus melanopterus
  Riffbarsch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2014-02-01 11:46:34 

Last edit:

2014-02-01 11:46:34 

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