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Apogon imberbis Cardinal Fish, Fucinata, King Of The Mullets, Mediterranean Cardinalfish

Apogon imberbis is commonly referred to as Cardinal Fish, Fucinata, King Of The Mullets, Mediterranean Cardinalfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. A aquarium size of at least 1000 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Meerbarbenkönig, Apogon imberbis

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lexID:
1651 
AphiaID:
273021 
Scientific:
Apogon imberbis 
German:
Roter Mittelmeer-Kardinalbarsch 
English:
Cardinal Fish, Fucinata, King Of The Mullets, Mediterranean Cardinalfish 
Category:
Cardinalfishes 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Apogonidae (Family) > Apogon (Genus) > imberbis (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Linnaeus, ), 1758 
Occurrence:
Ghana, West Sahara, Gambia, Straße von Gibraltar, Benin, Tunesien, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Azores, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cameroon, Congo, Croatia, Cyprus, East Africa, Equatorial Guinea, European Coasts, France, Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Israel, Italy, KwaZulu-Natal (Province East Coast South Africa), Liberia, Lybia, Madeira, Malta, Mauritania, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Nigeria, Northern Africa, Portugal, Red Sea, São Tomé e Principé, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, South-Africa, Spain, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, Togo, Turkey, West Indies, 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:
10 - 200 Meter 
Habitats:
Ocean beach, Seashore, Reef-associated, Rocky, hard seabeds, Unconsolidated muddy grounds, Underwater caves, Underwater caverns 
Size:
up to 5.91" (15 cm) 
Temperature:
13,3 °F - 20,9 °F (13,3°C - 20,9°C) 
Food:
Carnivore, Fish (little fishes), Invertebrates 
Tank:
219.98 gal (~ 1000L)  
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:
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2025-06-16 21:35:06 

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Apogon imberbis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea: Portugal to Morocco and the Azores. Elsewhere, southward to Gulf of Guinea. Occasionally forms schools; sometimes solitary. Inhabits muddy or rocky bottoms and caves.

Synonymised names
Amia imberbe (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Amia imberbis (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted
Apogon (Apogon) imberbis (Linnaeus, 1758) · alternative representation
Apogon inermis (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Apogon rexmullorum Cuvier, 1828 · unaccepted
Centropomus rubens Spinola, 1807 · unaccepted (synonym)
Kuhlia rubens (Spinola, 1807) · unaccepted
Mullus imberbis Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted

External links

  1. FishBase (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Group of fishes

Copyright Wolfram Sander, La Ciotat, Frankreich
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Apogon imberbis,Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES 2024

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Copyright Roberto Pillon, Foto Koufonissi, Griechenland
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Copyright Richard Field, Foto Malta, Mittelmeer
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Copyright Carlos Luis Hernández-González, Foto Kanarische Inseln
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Copyright Prof. Dr. Robert A. Patzner
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Meerbarbenkönig, Apogon imberbis
Meerbarbenkönig, Apogon imberbis

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