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Bonefish Albula vulpes🐟

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SpeciesAlbuliformesAlbulidae
Fish

🐟Bonefish

Albula vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758)

El macabijo o macabí (Albula vulpes) es una especie de la única familia, Albulidae, del orden Albuliformes. Es anfídromo, vive en aguas tropicales próximas a la costa, se mueve para alimentarse con la subida de la marea y se retira a aguas más profundas cuando la marea baja. Los juveniles pueden formar grandes cardúmenes de individuos de tamaño similar mientras que los individuos más maduros nadan en pequeños grupos o parejas. El macabijo se captura principalmente en pesca deportiva, y no se utiliza para la alimentación de forma habitual. Se consume en Hawái, donde se conoce como ʻōʻio.​ También es frecuente ver este pez en el mar Caribe, especialmente en el Oriente de Venezuela donde se le da el nombre de malacho y se consume extrayendo la carne gelatinosa de su lomo. Con la misma se suelen preparar albóndigas (las llamadas torticas de malacho) o se puede preparar guisada. De hecho, co el guiso de este pescado se preparan las tradicionales hallacas navideñas en la Isla de Margarita.

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Albula vulpes
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2012.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
10 kg
Body length
1.04 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Bonefish

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Body mass
10 kgmaximum recorded
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Body length
1.04 mmaximum recorded
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Trophic level
3.73
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Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.73 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
reports of ciguatera poisoning
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Volume l
10 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 Bonefish yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderAlbuliformes
  4. ›familyAlbulidae
  5. ›genusAlbula
  6. ›speciesAlbula vulpes
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. familyAlbulidae
  3. subfamilyAlbulinae
  4. genusAlbula
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. superorderElopomorpha
  10. orderAlbuliformes
  11. familyAlbulidae
  12. subfamilyAlbulinae
  13. genusAlbula
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Ubarana-focinho-de-rato (pt), Albulotvaré (sk), Albula (pl), Альбула (ru), Albula vulpes (fr), Albula vulpes (es) … and 15 more languages
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