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Phycis blennoides Greater forkbeard

Phycis blennoides is commonly referred to as Greater forkbeard. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.


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lexID:
5251 
AphiaID:
126501 
Scientific:
Phycis blennoides 
German:
Gabeldorsch 
English:
Greater Forkbeard 
Category:
Dorsze 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Gadiformes (Order) > Phycidae (Family) > Phycis (Genus) > blennoides (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Brünnich, ), 1768 
Occurrence:
Straße von Gibraltar, Algeria, Azores, East-Atlantic Ocean, Egypt, European Coasts, Iceland, Israel, Madeira, Morocco, Northern Africa, Portugal, Scandinavia, Spain, the British Isles, the Faroe Islands, the Isle of Man, the Mediterranean Sea, West Africa 
Sea depth:
100 - 650 Meter 
Size:
11.81" - 43.31" (30cm - 110cm) 
Weight:
3.9 kg 
Temperature:
42.8 °F - 80.6 °F (6°C - 27°C) 
Food:
Amphipods, Big fish, Copepods, Crabs, Crustaceans, Edible crab, Fish (little fishes), Invertebrates, Lobster, Mysis, Rock lobster, Rock shrimps, Schrimps, Sepia, Worms, Zoobenthos 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for home aquaria! 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Least concern (LC)  
Related species at
Catalog of Life
:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2013-04-12 18:54:15 

Info

(Brünnich, 1768)

Special thanks for the photo to Heinz Mahler, reefdreams.de

Depth range 10 to 1050 meters.

Diet: crustaceans and fish

Color: The body is brown to red-gray dorsally, becoming paler ventrally.

Commercial fisheries.

Synonyms:
Batrachoides gmelini Risso, 1810
Blennius gadoides Lacepède, 1800
Gadus albidus Gmelin, 1789
Gadus bifurcus Walbaum, 1792
Gadus blennoides Brünnich, 1768
Phycis furcatus Fleming, 1828 (synonym)
Phycis tinca Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Urophycis blennioides (Brünnich, 1768) (misspelling)

External links

  1. FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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