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Bonefish Albula vulpes🐟

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SpeciesAlbuliformesAlbulidae
Fish

🐟Bonefish

Albula vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758)

Обикновените албули (Albula vulpes) са вид актиноптери от семейство Албулови (Albulidae). Те са почти застрашен вид. Таксонът е описан за пръв път от Карл Линей през 1758 година.

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Also called
Albula vulpes
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2012.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
10 kg
Body length
1.04 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Bonefish

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
10 kgmaximum recorded
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Body length
1.04 mmaximum recorded
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Trophic level
3.73
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Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.73 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
reports of ciguatera poisoning
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Volume l
10 Laverage
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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 Bonefish yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderAlbuliformes
  4. ›familyAlbulidae
  5. ›genusAlbula
  6. ›speciesAlbula vulpes
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. familyAlbulidae
  3. subfamilyAlbulinae
  4. genusAlbula
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. superorderElopomorpha
  10. orderAlbuliformes
  11. familyAlbulidae
  12. subfamilyAlbulinae
  13. genusAlbula
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In other languages
Ubarana-focinho-de-rato (pt), Albulotvaré (sk), Albula (pl), Альбула (ru), Albula vulpes (fr), Albula vulpes (es) … and 15 more languages
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