🐟Blue grenadier
ホキ（マオリ語：hoki）はオーストラリア南部からニュージーランド近海の水深10 - 1,000メートルに生息するタラ目マクルロヌス科の深海魚。世界規模で利用される食用魚である。 学名のMacruronus novaezelandiaeは「ニュージーランドの大きな尾」を意味する。 かつてはメルルーサ科 (Merlucciidae) に分類されていたが、近年では独立したマクルロヌス科 (Macruronidae) に分類されることが多くなった。
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Macruronus novaezelandiae yet.
- Body mass
- 0.82 kg
- Body length
- 0.8 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 25 years
Everything we know about the Blue grenadier
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.82 kgrecord 1.5 kg · FishBaseAnAgeOther figures ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
By sex
- Female7 kgFishBasev25.04
Body length0.8 mrecord 1.2 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
By sex
- Female1.3 mFishBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan25 yearsrecord 25 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 level4.53FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.53 (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 l0.8 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 Blue grenadier yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderGadiformes
- ›familyMerlucciidae
- ›genusMacruronus
- ›speciesMacruronus novaezelandiae
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderGadiformes
- familyMerlucciidae
- genusMacruronus
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- orderGadiformes
- familyMerlucciidae
- genusMacruronus
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