🐟American paddlefish
De Amerikaanse lepelsteur (Polyodon spathula) is een straalvinnige vis uit de familie van lepelsteuren (Polyodontidae), orde van steurachtigen (Acipenseriformes). Het is de enige soort uit het geslacht Polyodon.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 50 kg
- Body length
- 1.2 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 55 years
Everything we know about the American paddlefish
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass50 kgrecord 91 kg · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Body length1.2 mrecord 2.21 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Maximum lifespan55 yearsrecord 55 years · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic level3.1FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.1 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Volume l50 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 American paddlefish yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderAcipenseriformes
- ›familyPolyodontidae
- ›genusPolyodon
- ›speciesPolyodon spathula
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- subfamilyPolyodontinae
- tribePolyodontini
- genusPolyodon
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassChondrostei
- orderAcipenseriformes
- suborderAcipenseroidei
- familyPolyodontidae
- subfamilyPolyodontinae
- tribePolyodontini
- genusPolyodon
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