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SpeciesPerciformesCentrarchidae
Fish

🐟Bluegill

Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819

블루길(영어: bluegill, 학명: Lepomis macrochirus )은 북아메리카가 원산지인 외래종으로, 물살이 빠르지 않은 하천에 사는 민물고기이다. 대한민국에서는 황소개구리, 배스, 미국 가재, 붉은귀거북, 뉴트리아와 함께 생태계교란종으로 지정하여 특별 관리되고 있다. 사람에게 물리적인 해를 입히지는 않으나, 날카로운 등 지느러미 가시에 찔리면 상당히 아프다.

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≈ 1/53rd of your weight
Also called
Bluegill Sunfish
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.18 kg
Body length
0.19 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
10 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Bluegill

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Body mass
1.18 kgrecord 2.15 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
0.19 mrecord 0.41 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

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

Maximum lifespan
10 yearsrecord 10 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
3.24
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.24 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
potential pest
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
1.2 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 Bluegill yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyCentrarchidae
  5. ›genusLepomis
  6. ›speciesLepomis macrochirus
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. superfamilyCentrarchoidei
  3. familyCentrarchidae
  4. genusLepomis
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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. orderCentrarchiformes
  11. superfamilyCentrarchoidei
  12. familyCentrarchidae
  13. genusLepomis
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Lepomis macrochirus (hu), ブルーギル (ja), Bass pręgowany (pl), Синежаберный солнечник (ru), Crapet arlequin (fr), 블루길 (ko) … and 16 more languages
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