Hemigymnus sexfasciatus Banded thicklip, Barred thicklip, Barred thicklip wrasse, Barred wrasse, Five-banded wrasse, Red Sea Thicklip Wrasse

Hemigymnus sexfasciatusis commonly referred to as Banded thicklip, Barred thicklip, Barred thicklip wrasse, Barred wrasse, Five-banded wrasse, Red Sea Thicklip Wrasse. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. A aquarium size of at least 3000 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

10524 

AphiaID:

713591 

Scientific:

Hemigymnus sexfasciatus 

German:

Streifen-Bannerlippfisch 

English:

Banded Thicklip, Barred Thicklip, Barred Thicklip Wrasse, Barred Wrasse, Five-banded Wrasse, Red Sea Thicklip Wrasse 

Category:

Wrasses 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Labridae (Family) > Hemigymnus (Genus) > sexfasciatus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Bloch, ), 1792 

Occurrence:

Djibouti, Sudan, (the) Maldives, American Samoa, Austral Islands, Australia, Bakers Island, Cebu ((Philippines), China, Christmas Islands, Comores, East Africa, Egypt, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kenya, Kingman Reef, Kiribati, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Midway Islands, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Palmyra Atoll, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Queensland (Australia), Red Sea, Réunion , Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, South-Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, 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:

1 - 35 Meter 

Size:

14.17" - 15.75" (36cm - 40cm) 

Temperature:

25,2 °F - 29,3 °F (25,2°C - 29,3°C) 

Food:

Clams, Crustaceans, Invertebrates, Snails, Starfishs, Zoobenthos, Zooplankton 

Tank:

659.94 gal (~ 3000L)  

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:

• 
  Hemigymnus fasciatus
  Streifen-Bannerlippfisch
• 
  Hemigymnus melapterus
  Lippfisch
• 
  Hemigymnus sexfasciatus
  Streifen-Bannerlippfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2017-03-10 19:42:06 

Last edit:

2017-04-16 22:57:59 

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