🐟Bowfin
L'amie, amie chauve ou poisson-castor, choupique (Amia calva) est la seule espèce actuelle de l'ordre des Amiiformes (qui abondaient au Crétacé). Elle vit aux États-Unis et au Canada. Son corps est recouvert de petites écailles minces et sa tête cuirassée de longues plaques osseuses. Les nageoires : nageoire dorsale étendue nageoire caudale arrondie d'apparence symétrique mais hétérocerque et précédée d'une tache. Le genre Amia contient aussi des espèces fossiles : †Amia hesperia †Amia pattersoni †Amia robusta †Amia scutata
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2013.
- Body mass
- 5.36 kg
- Body length
- 0.53 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 30 years
Everything we know about the Bowfin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass5.36 kgrecord 9.75 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 length0.53 mrecord 1.09 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Maximum lifespan30 yearsrecord 30 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 level3.81FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.81 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Volume l5.4 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 Bowfin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderAmiiformes
- familyAmiidae
- genusAmia
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAmiiformes
- familyAmiidae
- genusAmia
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