🐟American eel
L’anguille d’Amérique (Anguilla rostrata) est une espèce de poissons de la famille des anguillidés qui se reproduit dans la mer des Sargasses et vient croître en eau douce ou salée le long des côtes, depuis l’Amérique centrale jusqu’au Groenland.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.
- Body mass
- 4.03 kg
- Body length
- 0.5 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 50 years
Everything we know about the American eel
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass4.03 kgrecord 7.33 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 length0.5 mrecord 1.52 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
By sex
- Female1.22 mFishBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan50 yearsrecord 43 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 level3.83FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.83 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l4 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 American eel yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderAnguilliformes
- ›familyAnguillidae
- ›genusAnguilla
- ›speciesAnguilla rostrata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- superorderElopomorpha
- familyAnguillidae
- genusAnguilla
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- superorderElopomorpha
- familyAnguillidae
- genusAnguilla
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