Lagocephalus sceleratus Silver-cheeked toadfish

Lagocephalus sceleratusis commonly referred to as Silver-cheeked toadfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Highly toxic.

Profile

lexID:

5190 

AphiaID:

219954 

Scientific:

Lagocephalus sceleratus 

German:

Hasenkopf-Kugelfisch 

English:

Silver-cheeked Toadfish 

Category:

Pufferfishes/Globefishes 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Tetraodontidae (Family) > Lagocephalus (Genus) > sceleratus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Gmelin, ), 1789 

Occurrence:

Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Tunesien, Sudan, Hong Kong, Suez-Kanal, Djibouti, Kuwait, Eritrea, (the) Maldives, Algeria, American Samoa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Bahrain, Bakers Island, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Christmas Islands, Cook Islands, Corea, Egypt, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Hawaii, Howland Island, India, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Invasive Species, Irak, Iran, Israel, Japan, Johnston Atoll, Jordan, Kiribati, Lessepsian migrant, Line Islands, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, New Caledonia, New South Wales (Australia), Ogasawara Islands, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paracel-Islands, Philippines, Phoenix Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Quatar, Queensland (Australia), Red Sea, Réunion , Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Australia, South-Africa, Spratly Islands, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Taiwan, Thailand, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Mediterranean Sea, Timor Sea, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wake Atoll, Wallis and Futuna, Western Australia, Western Pacific Ocean, Yemen 

Sea depth:

8 - 180 Meter 

Size:

15.75" - 43.31" (40cm - 110cm) 

Weight:

7 kg 

Temperature:

71.6 °F - 82.4 °F (22°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Crabs, Crustaceans, Edible crab, Fish (little fishes), Insects, Rock shrimps, Schrimps 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Highly toxic 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Lagocephalus cheesemanii
• Lagocephalus gloveri
• Lagocephalus guentheri
• Lagocephalus inermis
• Lagocephalus laevigatus
• Lagocephalus lagocephalus
• 
  Lagocephalus lunaris
  Kugelfisch
• 
  Lagocephalus sceleratus
  Hasenkopf-Kugelfisch
• 
  Lagocephalus spadiceus
  Kugelfisch
• Lagocephalus suezensis
• Lagocephalus wheeleri
• Alle anzeigen

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2013-03-21 21:15:55 

Last edit:

2021-10-07 08:11:49 

Toxicity

Lagocephalus sceleratus is (very) poisonous and the poison can kill you under circumstances!!!
If you want to keep Lagocephalus sceleratus, inform yourself about the poison and its effects before buying. Keep a note with the telephone number of the poison emergency call and all necessary information about the animal next to your aquarium so that you can be helped quickly in an emergency.
The telephone numbers of the poison emergency call can be found here:
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Overview Worldwide: eapcct.org

This message appears for poisonous, very poisonous and also animals whose poison can kill you immediately. Every human reacts differently to poisons. Please therefore weigh the risk for yourself AND your environment very carefully, and never act lightly!

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