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Hucho taimen🐟

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SpeciesSalmoniformesSalmonidae
Fish

🐟Hucho taimen

Hucho taimen (Pallas, 1773)

Der Taimen (Hucho taimen) ist ein Knochenfisch aus der Familie der Lachsfische. Sein Name kommt aus dem Finnischen taimen und bedeutet Forelle.

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Also called
Taimen, Mongolian Taimen, Siberian Salmon, Siberian taimen, Siberian Taimen
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2013.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
39 kg
Body length
2 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
16 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Hucho taimen

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
39 kgrecord 105 kg · FishBase
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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
2 mmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
16 yearsrecord 55 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
4.46
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.46 (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
39 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 Hucho taimen yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderSalmoniformes
  4. ›familySalmonidae
  5. ›genusHucho
  6. ›speciesHucho taimen
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. familySalmonidae
  3. subfamilySalmoninae
  4. genusHucho
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderSalmoniformes
  10. familySalmonidae
  11. subfamilySalmoninae
  12. genusHucho
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长白哲罗鱼 (zh), tajmen (hu), Salmó siberià (ca), Taimen (de), Hucho taimen (es), siperianjokilohi (fi) … and 19 more languages
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