Chaetodipterus faber Atlantic spadefish

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

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bhb 18 P3262797 Atlantic Spadefish, Chaetodipterus faber, 2018

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Scientific:: Chaetodipterus faber
German:: Atlantischer Spatenfisch
English:: Atlantic Spadefish

Category:: Batfishes

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Ephippidae (Family) > Chaetodipterus (Genus) > faber (Species)
Initial determination:: (Broussonet, ), 1782

Occurrence:: Suriname, Barbados, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East-Atlantic Ocean, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico (East Pacific), Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago, 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:: 3 - 35 Meter
Size:: 33.46" - 35.43" (85cm - 90cm)
Temperature:: 75.2 °F - 78.8 °F (24°C - 26°C)
Food:: Amphipods, Clams, Coral polyps = corallivorous, Frozen Food (large sort), Hydrozoa polyps, Jellyfish, Snails, Worms
Difficulty:: suitable for large display tanks (public aquarium or zoo) only
Offspring:: Possible to breed
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Least concern (LC)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Chaetodipterus faber
Atlantischer Spatenfisch
Chaetodipterus lippei
Spatenfisch
Chaetodipterus zonatus

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2004-09-04 17:39:52
Last edit:: 2023-04-27 23:17:49

Captive breeding / propagation

The offspring of Chaetodipterus faber are possible. Unfortunately, the number of offspring is not large enough to cover the demand of the trade. If you are interested in Chaetodipterus faber, please ask your dealer for offspring. If you already own Chaetodipterus faber, try breeding yourself. This will help to improve the availability of offspring in the trade and to conserve natural stocks.

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Chaetodipterus faber (Broussonet, 1782)

This species has no aquaristic importance. It is almost never importet and gets up to 90cm large. Seems to be sensitively and tends to get iychtio.

Synonymised names:
Chaetodon faber Broussonet, 1782
Chaetodon plumieri Bloch, 1787

External links

FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 04.11.2021.

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Juvenile

Copyright Kevin Bryant, Foto: Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean online information system

Commonly

bhb 18 P3262797 Atlantic Spadefish, Chaetodipterus faber, 2018

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