🦈Photo: Mfield, Matthew Field, www.photography.mattfie… · CC BY-SA 3.0
🦈Leopard shark
Der Leopardenhai (Triakis semifasciata) ist ein maximal etwa 2 Meter lang werdender Hai aus der Ordnung der Grundhaie (Carcharhiniformes). Er lebt küstennah im östlichen Pazifik von Oregon bis zum Golf von Kalifornien vor allem über sandigen und schlammigen Böden in der Nähe von Felsen und in Tangwäldern in Tiefen von einem bis 90 Metern. Neben Triakis semifasciata wird auch der Zebrahai (Stegostoma fasciatum) im Deutschen hin und wieder als Leopardenhai bezeichnet. Sein Fleckenmuster ist viel feiner, er lebt im Indopazifik und ist als Angehöriger der Ammenhaiartigen (Orectolobiformes) auch nicht nahe mit Triakis semifasciata verwandt.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.
- Body mass
- 10 kg
- Body length
- 1.6 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 30 years
Everything we know about the Leopard shark
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass10 kgrecord 18 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 length1.6 mrecord 1.98 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
By sex
- Female1.8 mFishBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan30 yearsrecord 30 years · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Litter sizeabout 15AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic level3.67FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.67 (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 l10 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 Leopard shark yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classElasmobranchii
- ›orderCarcharhiniformes
- ›familyTriakidae
- ›genusTriakis
- ›speciesTriakis semifasciata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
- subclassElasmobranchii
All 7 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
- subclassElasmobranchii
More about the Leopard shark
No videos of the Leopard shark yet.
We have 44,653 videos so far, and none of them features this animal yet.
All videos →Compare the Leopard shark
Pick a tool — the Leopard shark is already selected.
Compare every stat with any other animal.
Stand them on the same floor and see who's bigger.
How speed, brain and bite scale with body size. This animal isn't in the sample yet.
See where it sits in the tree of life.