Brown puffer fish
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Brown puffer fish ( Tetraodon miurus ) |
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The Brown puffer ( Tetraodon miurus ) is one of Africa originating puffer -Art. It is also known under the names of the Congo puffer fish and the box puffer fish .
description
The brown puffer fish can reach a maximum length of 15 centimeters and is very variable in its color appearance. It varies between red-orange, ocher yellow, dark brown, light brown and even almost black. It has a suitcase-shaped, angular body shape. Its eyes are on the top of its head so it can burrow in the sandy bottom for prey . The mouth is also on top. Like all puffer fish, it can inflate in danger.
Way of life
The brown puffer fish is a solitary lurking predator that lurks for hours buried in the sandy bottom for prey swimming by. In the wild, this fish is usually found alive individually.
distribution
Its distribution area is the Congo Basin . Type locality of the brown puffer fish is the Ubangi near Banzyville.
Sources and further information
literature
- Wally Kahl, Burkard Kahl, Dieter Vogt: Kosmos Atlas aquarium fish. Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-440-12207-5 .
- Klaus Ebert: The puffers of fresh and brackish waters. Aqualog Verlag, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2001, ISBN 3-931702-60-X .
- Peter Schupke: African Cichlids: Tanganyika I. Tropheus. Verlag ACS, Rodgau 2003, ISBN 3-936027-38-2 .
- Rüdiger Riehl , Hans A. Baensch : Aquarium atlas. Volume 2, ISBN 3-88244-042-2 .
Web links
- Brown puffer on Fishbase.org (English)
- aquarium-guide.de: Brown Puffer - Tetraodon miurus
- aqua4you.de: Fish: Box puffer fish.
- Tetraodon miurus inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Moelants, T., 2009. Retrieved January 27, 2014.