Azurina hirundo Azurina hirundo

Azurina hirundo is commonly referred to as Azurina hirundo. 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:

8655 

AphiaID:

279852 

Scientific:

Azurina hirundo 

German:

Schwalben-Riffbarsch 

English:

Azurina Hirundo 

Category:

Damselfishes 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Pomacentridae (Family) > Azurina (Genus) > hirundo (Species) 

Initial determination:

Jordan & McGregor, 1898 

Occurrence:

Barbados, Guadeloupe, Anguilla, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Florida, Grenada, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico (East Pacific), Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Cayman Islands, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S. 

Sea depth:

3 - 60 Meter 

Size:

up to 5.51" (14 cm) 

Temperature:

25,6 °F - 28,1 °F (25,6°C - 28,1°C) 

Food:

Amphipods, Copepods, Hydrozoa polyps, Invertebrates, Jellyfish, 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:

• 
  Azurina eupalama
  Galapagos-Riffbarsch
• 
  Azurina hirundo
  Schwalben-Riffbarsch

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Azurina atrilobata
  Schwalbenschwänzchen
• 
  Azurina brevirostris
  Riffbarsch
• 
  Azurina cyanea
  Blaues Schwalbenschwänzchen
• 
  Azurina elerae
  Zweipunkt-Chromis
• 
  Azurina lepidolepis
  Riffbarsch, Demoiselle

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2015-08-08 17:43:20 

Last edit:

2022-02-22 18:16:54 

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