🐟Atlantic halibut
El fletán, halibut o halibut atlántico (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) es un pez plano de gran tamaño, de la familia de los Pleuronectidae, que suele medir hasta 1,2 m de longitud y alcanza los 200 kg de peso, aunque no son raros ejemplares de hasta 3 m y 320 kg. Se encuentra preferentemente en el océano Atlántico, y a menudo se lo confunde con el lenguado o se lo considera una subespecie de aquel, pero aunque pertenece al mismo orden, no es de la misma familia. Puede bajar hasta los 2000 m de profundidad. Es de crecimiento muy lento y su sobrepesca lo está poniendo en riesgo de extinción. Es una de las especies del género utilizado para la extracción del aceite de hígado de hipogloso. Su congénere es el fletán del pacífico (Hippoglossus stenolepis) y está relacionado más lejanamente con el fletán negro o de Groenlandia (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides).
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 176 kg
- Body length
- 4.7 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 90 years
Everything we know about the Atlantic halibut
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass176 kgrecord 320 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 length4.7 mmaximum recordedFishBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female3 mFishBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan90 yearsrecord 50 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 level4FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l176 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 Atlantic halibut yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderPleuronectiformes
- ›familyPleuronectidae
- ›genusHippoglossus
- ›speciesHippoglossus hippoglossus
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- suborderPleuronectoidei
- familyPleuronectidae
- genusHippoglossus
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- suborderPleuronectoidei
- familyPleuronectidae
- genusHippoglossus
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