Haemulon sciurus Bluestriped grunt

Haemulon sciurusis commonly referred to as Bluestriped grunt. Difficulty in the aquarium: Experts only! Very hard to keep. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Jim Greenfield, Großbritannien

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Scientific:: Haemulon sciurus
German:: Blausteifen Grunzer
English:: Bluestriped Grunt

Category:: Grunts

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Haemulidae (Family) > Haemulon (Genus) > sciurus (Species)
Initial determination:: (Shaw, ), 1803

Occurrence:: Barbados, Suriname, Guadeloupe, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Florida, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico (East Pacific), 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, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S., 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:: 1 - 40 Meter
Size:: up to 18.11" (46 cm)
Weight:: 750 g
Temperature:: 71.6 °F - 80.6 °F (22°C - 27°C)
Food:: Brine Shrimps, Krill, Mysis
Difficulty:: Experts only! Very hard to keep
Offspring:: Not available as offspring
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Least concern (LC)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2004-08-20 16:16:42
Last edit:: 2017-10-02 11:10:27

Info

(Shaw, 1803)

Our opinon: Not for tanks smaller than 600 gallons. An animal of this size (20") needs a lot of room an a stomping ground to defend and search food. Lives in depth of 0 - 30m.

Reports of ciguatera poisoning!

Synonyms:
Haemulon scirius (Shaw, 1803)
Sparus sciurus Shaw, 1803

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Haemulidae (Family) > Haemulinae (Subfamily) > Haemulon (Genus) > Haemulon sciurus (Species)