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Blue catfish OdySea Aquarium🐟

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SpeciesSiluriformesIctaluridae
Fish

🐟Blue catfish

Ictalurus furcatus (Valenciennes, 1840)

Der Blaue Katzenwels (Ictalurus furcatus) ist eine der größten Fischarten aus der Familie der Katzenwelse (Ictaluridae) in Nordamerika. Der wissenschaftliche Name leitet sich von den griechischen Wörtern ἰχθύς (ichthýs) („Fisch“) und αἴλουρος (ailouros) („Katze“) sowie dem lateinischen furcatus („gabelförmig“: Schwanzflosse) ab. Die Art wird kommerziell und von Sportanglern befischt und auch in Aquakultur gezogen.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2013.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
37 kg
Body length
1.65 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
21 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Blue catfish

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Body mass
37 kgrecord 68 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
1.65 mmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
21 yearsrecord 21 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
3.41
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.41 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

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

Volume l
38 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 Blue catfish yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderSiluriformes
  4. ›familyIctaluridae
  5. ›genusIctalurus
  6. ›speciesIctalurus furcatus
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. suborderSiluroidei
  3. familyIctaluridae
  4. genusIctalurus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. superorderCharaciphysae
  10. orderSiluriformes
  11. suborderSiluroidei
  12. familyIctaluridae
  13. genusIctalurus
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שפמנון כחול (he), Poisson-chat bleu (fr), Ictalurus furcatus (nl), 长鳍真𫚔 (zh), Ictalurus furcatus (ca), Blauer Katzenwels (de) … and 15 more languages
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