🐟Atlantic bluefin tuna
Der Rote Thun (Thunnus thynnus), auch Großer Thun, Nordatlantischer Thun oder Blauflossen-Thunfisch genannt, ist eine Thunfischart und ein bedeutender Speisefisch. Mit einer Maximallänge von 4,5 Metern und einem Maximalgewicht von über 650 Kilogramm ist er einer der größten Knochenfische.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 376 kg
- Body length
- 2 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 15 years
Everything we know about the Atlantic bluefin tuna
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass376 kgrecord 684 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 mrecord 4.58 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Maximum lifespan15 yearsrecord 32 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 level4.45FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.45 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Volume l376 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 Atlantic bluefin tuna yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderPerciformes
- ›familyScombridae
- ›genusThunnus
- ›speciesThunnus thynnus
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- genusThunnus
All 10 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- genusThunnus
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