🐟Capelin
Mallotus villosus, le capelan, est un petit poisson des océans Atlantique et Glacial Arctique. Le capelan commun (Mallotus villosus villosus) se trouve dans l'océan Atlantique jusqu'à la latitude de Terre-Neuve), et dans l'océan glacial Arctique, notamment en mer de Barents ainsi qu'à Caplan, en Gaspésie. La sous-espèce Mallotus villosus socialis, aussi appelée capelan du Pacifique, vit dans le Pacifique nord, depuis le Détroit de Béring jusqu'à la latitude de la Corée et du Japon. Le capelan se regroupe en bancs dont la biomasse peut atteindre plusieurs millions de tonnes. Le capelan vit entre la surface et 300 m de profondeur. Mallotus villosus est la seule espèce du genre Mallotus.
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Mallotus villosus yet.
- Body mass
- 0.05 kg
- Body length
- 0.15 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 10 years
Everything we know about the Capelin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.05 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length0.15 mrecord 0.2 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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By sex
- Female0.25 mFishBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan10 yearsrecord 10 years · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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Trophic level3.15FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.15 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.1 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 Capelin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderOsmeriformes
- ›familyOsmeridae
- ›genusMallotus
- ›speciesMallotus villosus
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderOsmeriformes
- genusMallotus
All 10 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderOsmeriformes
- genusMallotus
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