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SpeciesAcipenseriformesPolyodontidae
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🐟Chinese paddlefish

Psephurus gladius (Martens, 1862)

Psephurus gladius, appelé Espadon de Chine, spatulaire chinois ou encore espadon chinois, était une espèce de très grand poissons d'eau douce, éteinte en 2020, appartenant à l'ordre des Acipenseriformes (classé dans la famille des Polyodontidae). C'était la seule espèce de son genre Psephurus (monotypique). C'était aussi la seule espèce connue de la famille des Polyodontidae avec Polyodon spathula et l'un des plus grands poissons d'eau douce du monde.

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Conservation status
EXExtinct

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Key measurements
Body mass
300 kg
Body length
3 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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This animal is extinct

Assessed Extinct on the IUCN Red List, 2022. Everything on this page — the measurements, the photos, the videos — is a record of an animal that is gone.

Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Chinese paddlefish

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Body mass
300 kgmaximum recorded
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Body length
3 mmaximum recorded
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Trophic level
4.15
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Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.15 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Volume l
300 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 Chinese paddlefish yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderAcipenseriformes
  4. ›familyPolyodontidae
  5. ›genusPsephurus
  6. ›speciesPsephurus gladius
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. subfamilyPolyodontinae
  3. tribePsephurini
  4. genusPsephurus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassChondrostei
  9. orderAcipenseriformes
  10. suborderAcipenseroidei
  11. familyPolyodontidae
  12. subfamilyPolyodontinae
  13. tribePsephurini
  14. genusPsephurus
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白鲟 (zh), Schwertstör (de), Psephurus gladius (es), Psephurus gladius (fr), kardorrú tok (hu), Psephurus gladius (it) … and 20 more languages
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