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Melanogrammus aeglefinus 318932194🐟

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SpeciesGadiformesGadidae
Fish

🐟Haddock

Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758)

L’aiglefin, églefin ou èglefin (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) ou ânon ou haddock (s'il est fumé), est une espèce de poissons de la famille des Gadidae, unique représentant du genre Melanogrammus (monotypique).

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Measurements
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≈ 1/7th of your weight
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 1996.

Key measurements
Body mass
9.24 kg
Body length
0.35 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Haddock

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

Body mass
9.24 kgrecord 17 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

Body length
0.35 mrecord 1.12 m · FishBasetypical adult
FishBase
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Record: largest individual on record

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

Maximum lifespan
20 yearsrecord 20 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
4.03
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.03 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
9.2 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 Haddock yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderGadiformes
  4. ›familyGadidae
  5. ›genusMelanogrammus
  6. ›speciesMelanogrammus aeglefinus
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderAcanthomorphata
  3. orderGadiformes
  4. genusMelanogrammus
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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. genusMelanogrammus
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hyse (nb), Schellfisch (de), Anon (fr), Eglefino (es), schelvis (nl), Plamiak (pl) … and 24 more languages

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