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Hydrocynus goliath🐟

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SpeciesCharaciformesAlestidae
Fish

🐟Hydrocynus goliath

Hydrocynus goliath (Boulenger, 1898)

골리앗타이거피시(Hydrocynus goliath)는 카라신목 알레스테스과에 속하는 민물고기이다. 몸길이는 1.5m에 몸무게는 70kg 가 되며 이는 민물고기에서 매우 거대한 어종에 속한다.

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Also called
Giant Tigerfish, Goliath tigerfish
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
50 kg
Body length
1.33 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 Hydrocynus goliath

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

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

Body length
1.33 mmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Trophic level
3.79
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.79 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Volume l
50 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 Hydrocynus goliath yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderCharaciformes
  4. ›familyAlestidae
  5. ›genusHydrocynus
  6. ›speciesHydrocynus goliath
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. superorderCharaciphysae
  3. orderCharaciformes
  4. genusHydrocynus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. superorderCharaciphysae
  10. orderCharaciformes
  11. genusHydrocynus
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Большая тигровая рыба (ru), Hydrocynus goliath (sv), ปลาไทเกอร์โกไลแอต (th), Peixe-tigre-golias (pt), Goliat tygrysi (pl), Poisson tigre goliath (fr) … and 20 more languages
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