🐟Black scabbardfish
Le Sabre noir, Aphanopus carbo, est un poisson appartenant à la famille des Trichiuridae que l'on rencontre dans l'océan Atlantique entre des latitudes de 69° N et 27° N et à des profondeurs entre 180 et 1 700 m. Il mesure plus de 110 cm de long et atteint la maturité à partir de 80 à 85 cm. Le Sabre noir est un poisson au corps particulièrement allongé. Sa gueule est grande avec des dents acérées. Les nageoires pelviennes sont présentes sous la forme d'une simple épine chez le jeune et disparaissent complètement chez l'adulte. Il est de couleur noir cuivré. L'intérieur de la bouche est noir. Les jeunes vivent à des profondeurs variant entre 100 et 500 m.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 4.23 kg
- Body length
- 0.7 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Black scabbardfish
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass4.23 kgaverageOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female.
By sex
- Female4.23 kgFishBasev25.04
Body length0.7 mrecord 1.51 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Trophic level4.48FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.48 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l4.2 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 Black scabbardfish yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderPerciformes
- ›familyTrichiuridae
- ›genusAphanopus
- ›speciesAphanopus carbo
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- familyTrichiuridae
- genusAphanopus
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- familyTrichiuridae
- genusAphanopus
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