🐟Greater amberjack
Die Große Bernsteinmakrele (Seriola dumerili) auch Grünel, Gelbschwanzmakrele oder Bernstein-Stachelmakrele genannt, kommt zirkumglobal in allen Weltmeeren, deren Wassertemperatur bei mehr als 18 °C liegt, vor. Im Westatlantik reicht ihr Verbreitungsgebiet von Neuengland bis Brasilien und schließt auch die Karibik und den Golf von Mexiko ein. Außerdem lebt sie im Ostatlantik, im Mittelmeer, im Roten Meer und im Indopazifik von Südafrika bis nach Japan und Panama. Sie hält sich von der Wasseroberfläche bis in Tiefen von 350 Metern auf.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.
- Body mass
- 81 kg
- Body length
- 1 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 15 years
Everything we know about the Greater amberjack
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass81 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length1 mrecord 1.9 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Maximum lifespan15 yearsmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic level4.7FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.7 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansreports of ciguatera poisoningFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l81 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 Greater amberjack yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderPerciformes
- ›familyCarangidae
- ›genusSeriola
- ›speciesSeriola dumerili
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
All 9 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
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