🐟Bluegill
Der Blaue Sonnenbarsch (Lepomis macrochirus), englisch Bluegill, ist eine Barschart aus der Familie der Sonnenbarsche (Centrarchidae) und gehört zu den Barschverwandten (Percomorphaceae). Der Blaue Sonnenbarsch ist seit 1986 der Staatsfisch des US-Bundesstaates Illinois.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 1.18 kg
- Body length
- 0.19 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 10 years
Everything we know about the Bluegill
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1.18 kgrecord 2.15 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 length0.19 mrecord 0.41 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Maximum lifespan10 yearsrecord 10 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 level3.24FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.24 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humanspotential pestFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l1.2 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 Bluegill yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderPerciformes
- ›familyCentrarchidae
- ›genusLepomis
- ›speciesLepomis macrochirus
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- superfamilyCentrarchoidei
- familyCentrarchidae
- genusLepomis
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- orderCentrarchiformes
- superfamilyCentrarchoidei
- familyCentrarchidae
- genusLepomis
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