🐟European conger
Havål (Conger conger) er stor og lang fisk, som i modsætning til ålen, kun lever i havet. Den lever i Atlanterhavet og Middelhavet og ses også i danske farvande. Havål er gråbrun, gråblå eller sort, nogle gange med grønligt skær på ryggen. Den bliver lysere nedefter mod bugen som er gråhvid. Hunnerne kan blive op 3 m lange og veje op til 100 kg, mens hannerne kun sjældent er længere end 1 m. Det er en rovfisk der mest lever af bundfisk, men den tager også blæksprutter, krebsdyr, artsfæller og ådsler. Den er overvejende nataktiv og holder til i huler eller fordybninger om dagen. Halen kan bruges som gribehale, og den kan bruge den til at kaste sig ud fra en båd hvis den får fat i rælingen.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.
- Body mass
- 110 kg
- Body length
- 1 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the European conger
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass110 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length1 mrecord 3 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Trophic level4.31FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.31 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansreports of ciguatera poisoningFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l110 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 European conger yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- subclassNeopterygii
- superorderElopomorpha
- genusConger
All 10 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- superorderElopomorpha
- genusConger
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