Acyrtus rubiginosus Red Clingfish

Acyrtus rubiginosus is commonly referred to as Red Clingfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

10615 

AphiaID:

279507 

Scientific:

Acyrtus rubiginosus 

German:

Roter Schildbauch, Roter Ansauger 

English:

Red Clingfish 

Category:

Diademiki 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Gobiesociformes (Order) > Gobiesocidae (Family) > Acyrtus (Genus) > rubiginosus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Poey, ), 1868 

Occurrence:

Guadeloupe, Barbados, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands, U.S. 

Marine Zone:

Intertidal (Eulittoral), intertidal zone between the high and low tide lines characterized by the alternation of low and high tide down to 15 meters 

Sea depth:

0 - 4 Meter 

Size:

3,5 cm 

Temperature:

26,7 °F - 27,7 °F (26,7°C - 27,7°C) 

Food:

Amphipods, Carnivore, Copepods, Crustaceans, Invertebrates, Ostracodes (seed shrimps), Zoobenthos 

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:

• Acyrtus artius
• Acyrtus lanthanum
• Acyrtus pauciradiatus
• 
  Acyrtus rubiginosus
  Roter Schildbauch, Roter Ansauger

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2017-04-08 17:55:34 

Last edit:

2026-02-21 17:13:03 

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