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Melanogrammus aeglefinus 318932194🐟

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SpeciesGadiformesGadidae
Fish

🐟Haddock

Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Treska skvrnitá (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), známá také jako haddock nebo pikša, je mořská ryba z čeledi treskovitých. Obývá severní část Atlantiku a Barentsovo moře, jižní hranicí rozšíření je Biskajský záliv a mys Hatteras.

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Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 1996.

Key measurements
Body mass
9.24 kg
Body length
0.35 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Haddock

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

Body mass
9.24 kgrecord 17 kg · FishBase
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
0.35 mrecord 1.12 m · FishBasetypical adult
FishBase
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
20 yearsrecord 20 years · FishBase
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
4.03
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.03 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
9.2 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 Haddock yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderGadiformes
  4. ›familyGadidae
  5. ›genusMelanogrammus
  6. ›speciesMelanogrammus aeglefinus
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderAcanthomorphata
  3. orderGadiformes
  4. genusMelanogrammus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderAcanthomorphata
  10. orderGadiformes
  11. genusMelanogrammus
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hyse (nb), Schellfisch (de), Anon (fr), Eglefino (es), schelvis (nl), Plamiak (pl) … and 24 more languages

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