🐟Black marlin
シロカジキ（白舵木、学名：Istiompax indica）は、アジ目マカジキ科に分類される魚の一種。主にインド太平洋暖海域に分布する大型のカジキで、食用に漁獲される。シロカジキ属の唯一の種だが、古い分類ではクロカジキ属に含めて学名 Makaira indica としていた。 日本での地方名はシロカワ・シロカワカジキ（東京・高知）、シロマザアラ（神奈川県三崎）、カトクイ（和歌山）、ゲンバ（高知・鹿児島）、カタハリ、カツオクイなどがある。英名は"Black Marlin"（黒いカジキ）で和名と正反対だが、これは英名が生体の背中の濃い藍色を指すのに対し、和名は死後の白っぽくなった体色を指すことによる。なお英語の"White marlin"は大西洋産のニシマカジキ Kajikia albidus を指す。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 750 kg
- Body length
- 3.8 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Black marlin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass750 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length3.8 mrecord 4.65 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Trophic level4.5FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.5 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l750 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 Black marlin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderPerciformes
- ›familyIstiophoridae
- ›genusIstiompax
- ›speciesIstiompax indica
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderIstiophoriformes
- familyIstiophoridae
- genusIstiompax
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- orderIstiophoriformes
- familyIstiophoridae
- genusIstiompax
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