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SpeciesGadiformesLotidae
Fish

🐟Burbot

Lota lota (Linnaeus, 1758)

カワメンタイ(Lota lota)は、タラ目唯一の淡水魚。カワメンタイ属(Lota)は単型である。

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≈ a third of your weight
Also called
Eel-Pout
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
19 kg
Body length
0.4 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 Burbot

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

Body mass
19 kgrecord 34 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
0.4 mrecord 1.52 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
3.84
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 3.84 (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
19 Laverage
Details ↓

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 Burbot yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderGadiformes
  4. ›familyLotidae
  5. ›genusLota
  6. ›speciesLota lota
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderAcanthomorphata
  3. orderGadiformes
  4. genusLota
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderAcanthomorphata
  10. orderGadiformes
  11. genusLota
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Trüsche (de), Lotte (fr), Манић (sr), mník jednovousý (cs), made (fi), menyhal (hu) … and 22 more languages
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