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🐟Beluga sturgeon
Моруната (Huso huso) е най-голямата сладководна риба. Обитава Бяло море, Каспийско море, Азовско море, Черно море, Адриатическо море. Преходна риба, навлиза в реките пролетно време за хвърляне на хайвер. Хищник, храни се с различни водни животни. Лови се заради месото и хайвера. Тя е представител на малка, древна група риби, които имат белези и на хрущялни, и на костни риби. По кожата на моруната има пет надлъжни реда костни плочки. Имат несиметрична опашка. Устата им е разположена коремно. Официалният рекорд е 102 кг и е поставен през 1993 година в река Урал, Казахстан. Това е най-голямата риба, срещаща се в пресни води. Тя достига дължина до няколко метра, а теглото ѝ до 1120 кг, дори до 1280 кг. В миналото е надвишавала и 1600 кг.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 1,140 kg
- Body length
- 2.15 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 118 years
Everything we know about the Beluga sturgeon
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1,140 kgrecord 3,200 kg · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Body length2.15 mrecord 8 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Maximum lifespan118 yearsrecord 118 years · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic level4.42FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.42 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l1,140 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Beluga sturgeon yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderAcipenseriformes
- suborderAcipenseroidei
- familyAcipenseridae
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassChondrostei
- orderAcipenseriformes
- suborderAcipenseroidei
- familyAcipenseridae
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