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Lobotes surinamensis Atlantic Tripletail, Black Grunt, Black Perch, Bouyfish, Bouy Fish, Brown Tripletail, Brown Triple Tail, Conchy Leaf, Dusky Tripletail, Dusky Triple-tail, Flasher, Sleepfish, Tripletail, Triple-tail, Triple Tail, Tripple Tail

Lobotes surinamensisis commonly referred to as Atlantic Tripletail, Black Grunt, Black Perch, Bouyfish, Bouy Fish, Brown Tripletail, Brown Triple Tail, Conchy Leaf, Dusky Tripletail, Dusky Triple-tail, Flasher, Sleepfish, Tripletail, Triple-tail, Triple Tail, Tripple Tail. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profilbild Urheber Roger Steeb, USA

Atlantic Tripletail (Lobotes surinamensis),Photo from a deck. Bocas Town, Isla Colon, Bocas del Toro, Panama 2017


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lexID:
11052 
AphiaID:
126973 
Scientific:
Lobotes surinamensis 
German:
Dreischwanzbarsch 
English:
Atlantic Tripletail, Black Grunt, Black Perch, Bouyfish, Bouy Fish, Brown Tripletail, Brown Triple Tail, Conchy Leaf, Dusky Tripletail, Dusky Triple-tail, Flasher, Sleepfish, Tripletail, Triple-tail, Triple Tail, Tripple Tail 
Category:
Other Fishes 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Lobotidae (Family) > Lobotes (Genus) > surinamensis (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Bloch, ), 1790 
Occurrence:
Straße von Gibralta, Russland, Suriname, Sudan, Tunesien, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, West Sahara, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Djibouti, Eritrea, Gambia, Hong Kong, Sint Eustatius and Saba, (the) Maldives, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean), Africa, Algeria, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Arabian Sea, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Bangladesh, Barents Sea, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada , Central Pazific, Chile, China, Christmas Islands, Columbia, Comores, Congo, Corea, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Africa, East-Atlantic Ocean, Eastern Pacific Ocean, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, French Guiana, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Lembeh Strait, Madagascar, Madeira, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua, Papua New Guinea, Paracel-Islands, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Réunion , Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé e Principé, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South-Africa, Spratly Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, The Bahamas, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, the Falkland Islands, the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, the Netherlands Antilles, the Seychelles, Timor, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Uruguay, USA, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, U.S., Wake Atoll, West-Atlantic Ocean, Western Indian Ocean, Yemen 
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:
0 - 70 Meter 
Size:
up to 43.31" (110 cm) 
Weight:
19.2 kg 
Temperature:
71.6 °F - 80.6 °F (22°C - 27°C) 
Food:
Crabs, Crustaceans, Fish (little fishes), Mantis shrimps, Mysis, Rock shrimps, Schrimps, Sepia 
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:
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2023-09-12 20:49:40 

Info

Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch, 1790)
Tripletail

Lobotes is a genus of perciform fishes known as the tripletails native to subtropical and tropical waters in all oceans. This is the sole genus in the family Lobotidae. Juvenile may occur in floating Sargassum and mimic a floating leaf.
Feeds on benthic crustaceans and small fish

Tropical and subtropical waters of all oceans.

Synonymised names:
Bodianus triourus Mitchill, 1815 · unaccepted (synonym)
Holocentrus surinamensis Bloch, 1790 · unaccepted (synonym)
Lobotes auctorum Günther, 1859 · unaccepted (synonym)
Lobotes citrinus Richardson, 1846 · unaccepted (synonym)
Lobotes erate Cuvier, 1830 · unaccepted (synonym)
Lobotes farkharii Cuvier, 1830 · unaccepted (synonym)
Lobotes incurvus Richardson, 1846 · unaccepted (synonym)
Lobotes somnolentus Cuvier, 1830 · unaccepted (synonym)
Lobotus surinamensis (Bloch, 1790) · unaccepted (misspelling)

Scientific paper

  1. Record of the Atlantic tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch, 1790) in the Bay of Izmir, northern Aegean Sea, O. Akyol; A. Kara, 2012
  2. First catch in Russian waters of a spinulated specimen ofLobotes surinamensis(Bloch, 1790) (Percoidei: Lobotidae) with notes on taxonomy of this species, V. V. Zemnukhov; S. V. Turanov, 2011
  3. First record of the tripletail or blackfish ( Lobotes surinamensis) from an oceanic island in the South Atlantic, Sazima, Ivan; Grossman, Alice; Carvalho-Filho, Alfredo; Sazima, Cristina , 2009
  4. About the taxonomic status of rare fish species Surinam tripletailLobotes surinamensis(Lobotidae) and new discovery of this species in Russian waters, V. E. Kharin; D. I. Vyshkvartsev; O. A. Maznikova, 2009
  5. Grouped Tooth Replacement in the Oral Jaws of the Tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis (Perciformes: Lobotidae), with a Discussion of Its Proposed Relationship to Datnioides, Eric J. Hilton and William E. Bemis, 2005
  6. Offshore Records of the Tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis, in the Gulf of Mexico, David K. Caldwell, 1955
  7. On the Behavior of Young Lobotes surinamensis, C. M. Breder, Jr., 1949
  8. Additional Notes on the Occurrence and Natural History of the Triple Tail, Lobotes surinamensis, J. L. Baughman, 1943
  9. On the Occurrence in the Gulf Coast Waters of the United States of the Triple Tail, Lobotes surinamensis, with Notes on Its Natural History, J. L. Baughman, 1941
  10. Notes on the Habits of the Triple-Tail, Lobotes surinamensis, K. F. Hughes, 1937
  11. The Triple-Tail, Lobotes surinamensis, Its Names, Occurrence on our Coasts and Its Natural History, E. W. Gudger, 1931

External links

  1. FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Atlantic Tripletail (Lobotes surinamensis),Photo from a deck. Bocas Town, Isla Colon, Bocas del Toro, Panama 2017

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