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SpeciesGadiformesMerlucciidae
Fish

🐟Blue grenadier

Macruronus novaezelandiae (Hector, 1871)

Macruronus novaezelandiae, le Grenadier bleu ou la Merluche patagonienne, est une espèce de poissons de forme allongée qui vit dans les eaux du sud du Pacifique par des profondeurs allant de 200 à 1 000 m. Sa longueur varie de 60 à 120 cm. Les différentes espèces de hokis, toutes originaires du Pacifique Sud, sont pêchées au large des côtes chiliennes, néo-zélandaises et australiennes.

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Also called
Macruronus novaezelandiae
Conservation status
Not evaluated

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Key measurements
Body mass
0.82 kg
Body length
0.8 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
25 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Blue grenadier

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

Body mass
0.82 kgrecord 1.5 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

By sex

  • Female7 kgFishBasev25.04
Body length
0.8 mrecord 1.2 m · FishBasetypical adult
FishBase
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Record: largest individual on record

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

By sex

  • Female1.3 mFishBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan
25 yearsrecord 25 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
4.53
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.53 (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
0.8 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 Blue grenadier yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderGadiformes
  4. ›familyMerlucciidae
  5. ›genusMacruronus
  6. ›speciesMacruronus novaezelandiae
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderGadiformes
  3. familyMerlucciidae
  4. genusMacruronus
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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. orderGadiformes
  11. familyMerlucciidae
  12. genusMacruronus
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藍尖尾無鬚鱈 (zh), Macruronus novaezelandiae (pt), Hoki (de), ホキ (ja), treskovník novozélandský (cs), Hoki (fr) … and 12 more languages
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