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SpeciesPerciformesCentrarchidae
Fish

🐟Bluegill

Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819

Isoaurinkoahven (Lepomis macrochirus) on aurinkoahventen (Centrarchidae) heimoon kuuluva kalalaji. Se on tavallisesti noin 19-senttinen, mutta voi saavuttaa 41 sentin pituuden. Isoaurinkoahvenen on havaittu elävän korkeintaan 10-vuotiaaksi. Isoaurinkoahvenen luontainen levinneisyysalue ulottuu Quebecistä pohjoiseen Meksikoon. Lisäksi sitä tavataan vieraslajina useissa Afrikan, Aasian ja Pohjois-Amerikan maissa sekä Hawaijilla ja Venezuelassa.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/53rd of your weight
Also called
Bluegill Sunfish
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.18 kg
Body length
0.19 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
10 years
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Everything we know about the Bluegill

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

Body mass
1.18 kgrecord 2.15 kg · 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

Body length
0.19 mrecord 0.41 m · FishBasetypical adult
FishBase
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
10 yearsrecord 10 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
3.24
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.24 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
potential pest
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
1.2 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 Bluegill yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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In other languages
Lepomis macrochirus (hu), ブルーギル (ja), Bass pręgowany (pl), Синежаберный солнечник (ru), Crapet arlequin (fr), 블루길 (ko) … and 16 more languages
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