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Hippoglossus hippoglossus 196509307🐟

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SpeciesPleuronectiformesPleuronectidae
Fish

🐟Atlantic halibut

Hippoglossus hippoglossus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Le Flétan de l'Atlantique (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) est une espèce de poissons de la famille des Pleuronectidae, qui comprend des poissons plats ayant les deux yeux du même côté. On distinguera ce flétan, aussi appelé flétan blanc, du flétan du Pacifique (Hippoglossus stenolepis), espèce très voisine, et du flétan du Groenland ou flétan noir (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides), espèce de plus petite taille et recherchée également pour sa chair plus fine et plus grasse que celle des autres flétans.

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Also called
Hippoglossus hippoglossus, halibut, Halibut
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Atlantic halibut

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

Body mass
176 kgrecord 320 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
4.7 mmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

By sex

  • Female3 mFishBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan
90 yearsrecord 50 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
4
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

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

Volume l
176 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 Atlantic halibut yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPleuronectiformes
  4. ›familyPleuronectidae
  5. ›genusHippoglossus
  6. ›speciesHippoglossus hippoglossus
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. suborderPleuronectoidei
  3. familyPleuronectidae
  4. genusHippoglossus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderAcanthomorphata
  10. suborderPleuronectoidei
  11. familyPleuronectidae
  12. genusHippoglossus
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In other languages
Hippoglossus hippoglossus (es), Heilbutt (de), Hippoglossus hippoglossus (pt), platýs obecný (cs), Helleflynder (da), ruijanpallas (fi) … and 21 more languages
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