🐟Atlantic goliath grouper
Epinephelus itajara, le Mérou goliath, (anciennement poisson-juif) est l'une des deux espèces de mérous géants avec Epinephelus lanceolatus. Epinephelus itajara peut atteindre 2,50 mètres pour 455 kg. Il compte parmi les plus grosses espèces de poissons au monde et reste menacé.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 455 kg
- Body length
- 1.5 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 37 years
Everything we know about the Atlantic goliath grouper
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass455 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length1.5 mrecord 2.5 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Maximum lifespan37 yearsmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic level4.22FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.22 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humanstraumatogenicFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l455 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 goliath grouper yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderPerciformes
- ›familySerranidae
- ›genusEpinephelus
- ›speciesEpinephelus itajara
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
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