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Atherina hepsetus Mediterranean sand smelt

Atherina hepsetusis commonly referred to as Mediterranean sand smelt. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
4917 
AphiaID:
272028 
Scientific:
Atherina hepsetus 
German:
Große Ährenfisch 
English:
Mediterranean Sand Smelt 
Category:
Silversides 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Atheriniformes (Order) > Atherinidae (Family) > Atherina (Genus) > hepsetus (Species) 
Initial determination:
Linnaeus, 1758 
Occurrence:
Russland, Straße von Gibralta, the Black Sea, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean), Algeria, East-Atlantic Ocean, European Coasts, Madeira, Morocco, Spain, the Canary Islands, the Mediterranean Sea 
Sea depth:
0 - 50 Meter 
Size:
5.91" - 7.87" (15cm - 20cm) 
Temperature:
51.8 °F - 80.6 °F (11°C - 27°C) 
Food:
Copepods, Crustaceans, Invertebrates, Krill, Mysis, Zoobenthos, Zooplankton 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for home aquaria! 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2012-12-27 19:03:12 

Info

Linnaeus, 1758

Special Thanks to Christian Coudre, France, for the foto of Atherina hepsetus.

Distribution:
Eastern Atlantic: coasts of Spain and Morocco including Madeira and the Canary Islands.
Also in the western Mediterranean, Adriatic Sea and Black Sea.

Biology:
Littoral, often near shore. Gregarious, sometimes occurs in marine lagoons (France) and estuaries (Portugal).
Feed on pelagic copepods and benthic crustaceans.

Synonymised taxa:
Atherina hepsetus Linnaeus, 1758

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Atheriniformes (Order) > Atherinidae (Family) > Atherininae (Subfamily) > Atherina (Genus)

Scientific paper

  1. Genetic diversity of Atherina hepsetus (Osteichthyes: Atherinidae) populations as determined by RFLP analysis of three mtDNA regions, Kraitsek, Spiridoula N.; Klossa‐Kilia, Elena A.; Alahiotis, Stamatis N.; Kilias, George E. , 2008
  2. Phylogenetic relationships of Atherina hepsetus and Atherina boyeri (Pisces: Atherinidae) populations from Greece, based on mtDNA sequences, ELENI KLOSSA-KILIA; VASILIS PAPASOTIROPOULOS; GEORGE TRYFONOPOULOS; STAMATIS ALAHIOTIS; GEORGE KILIAS, 2007
  3. Larvae of Sand Smelts (Atherina hepsetusL.) as a Bioindicator of Pollution in the Black Sea Coastal Waters, I. I. Rudneva; I. N. Zalevskaya, 2004
  4. Untersuchungen über die Permeabilität lebender Membranen. VI. Permeabilität des Kiemenepitheliums von “Atherina hepsetus L.” für Strychnin, Eugen Macovski; Eufrosine Macovski, 1938
  5. Untersuchungen über die Permeabilität lebender Membranen. III. Die Permeabilität der Zellen des Kiemenepitheliums von „Atherina hepsetus L.” für Saponin, Eugen Macovski; Eufrosine Macovski, 1937

External links

  1. Cote bleu Christian Coudre (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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© Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens, Holland
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copyright David Luquet, Frankreich
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copyright Christian Coudre, Frankreich
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