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Caranx ignobilis🐟

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SpeciesPerciformesCarangidae
Fish

🐟Giant Trevally

Caranx ignobilis (Forsskål, 1775)

ロウニンアジ（浪人鯵、学名：Caranx ignobilis ）は、アジ目アジ科に属する海水魚の一種。インド太平洋の熱帯・亜熱帯海域に分布する大型肉食魚である。 アジ類の中では最大種であり、釣りの対象として人気が高い。

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≈ 1.3× your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
80 kg
Body length
1 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Giant Trevally

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

Body mass
80 kgmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Body length
1 mrecord 1.7 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

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

Trophic level
4.22
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.22 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
reports of ciguatera poisoning
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
80 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 Giant Trevally yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyCarangidae
  5. ›genusCaranx
  6. ›speciesCaranx ignobilis
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. classActinopteri
  3. subclassNeopterygii
  4. orderAcanthomorphata
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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
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流氓瓜仔 (zh), צנינית ענק (he), Caranx ignobilis (fr), Caranx ignobilis (es), ปลากะมงพร้าว (th), Caranx ignobilis (ca) … and 16 more languages
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