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Ophiodon elongatus 294584903🐟

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SpeciesScorpaeniformesHexagrammidae
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🐟Lingcod

Ophiodon elongatus Girard, 1854

キバアイナメ (学名: Ophiodon elongatus) はペルカ目アイナメ科に属する魚類の一種。キンムツの和名も持ち、英名からリングコッド（英語: lingcod）とも呼ばれる。Ophiodon に含まれる現生種は本種のみ。カリフォルニア南部、中新世後期の層から産出した化石種 Ophiodon ozymandias が知られており、これは本種よりわずかに大きい。 北米の西岸、シュマージン諸島からバハ・カリフォルニアまでの海域に産し、最大で152 cm、59 kgに達する。体には灰色の斑点が散らばる。食用・釣りの対象にもなる。 英名の ”Ling cod” は、”Ling”（学名: Molva molva クロジマナガダラ）や ”cod”（タラ類）に体型が似ることに由来する。だがこれらの魚類とは近縁でない。 分子系統解析において同所に分布するカベゾン Scorpaenichthys marmoratus と近縁であるとされたこともあるが、2014年にはやはりアイナメ科の系統に属するという結果が得られている。

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Conservation status
Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Ophiodon elongatus yet.

Key measurements
Body mass
33 kg
Body length
1.52 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Everything we know about the Lingcod

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Body mass
33 kgrecord 59 kg · FishBase
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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
1.52 mmaximum recorded
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Maximum lifespan
20 yearsrecord 25 years · FishBase
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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
4.53
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Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.53 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
traumatogenic
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Volume l
33 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 Lingcod yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderScorpaeniformes
  4. ›familyHexagrammidae
  5. ›genusOphiodon
  6. ›speciesOphiodon elongatus
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. suborderCottioidei
  3. subfamilyOphiodontinae
  4. genusOphiodon
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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. suborderCottioidei
  11. subfamilyOphiodontinae
  12. genusOphiodon
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Lengdorsch (de), キンムツ (ja), Ofiodon (pl), Ophiodon elongatus (nl), Ophiodon elongatus (fr), molva (es) … and 15 more languages
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