Sparisoma radians Bucktooth parrotfish, Sleep On Grass

Sparisoma radians is commonly referred to as Bucktooth parrotfish, Sleep On Grass. 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:

9474 

AphiaID:

273777 

Scientific:

Sparisoma radians 

German:

Papageifisch 

English:

Bucktooth Parrotfish, Sleep On Grass 

Category:

Parrotfishes 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scaridae (Family) > Sparisoma (Genus) > radians (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Valenciennes, ), 1840 

Occurrence:

Barbados, Suriname, Guadeloupe, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Florida, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S. 

Sea depth:

1 - 12 Meter 

Size:

5.91" - 7.87" (15cm - 20cm) 

Temperature:

°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Algae (Algivore), Aquatic plant 

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:

• 
  Sparisoma amplum
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma atomarium
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma aurofrenatum
  Rotband-Papageienfisch
• 
  Sparisoma axillare
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma choati
  "Westafrikanischer" Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma chrysopterum
  Rotschwanz-Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma cretense
  Europäischer Papageienfisch
• 
  Sparisoma frondosum
  Agassiz-Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma griseorubrum
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma radians
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma rocha
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma rubripinne
  Gelbschwanz-Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma strigatum
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma tuiupiranga
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma viride
  Stoplicht-Pagageienfisch, Grüner Papageifisch, Ampel-Papageifisch
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Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2016-03-10 18:26:15 

Last edit:

2019-12-22 14:56:27 

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