🐟Atlantic blue marlin
De blauwe marlijn (Makaira nigricans) is een straalvinnige vis uit de familie van zeilvissen (Istiophoridae), orde van baarsachtigen (Perciformes).
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 94 kg
- Body length
- 2.9 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 28 years
Everything we know about the Atlantic blue marlin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass94 kgrecord 636 kg · FishBaseAnAgeOther figures ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
By sex
- Female820 kgFishBasev25.04
Body length2.9 mrecord 5 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
By sex
- Female5 mFishBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan28 yearsrecord 20 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 level4.49FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.49 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Volume l94 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 Atlantic blue marlin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderPerciformes
- ›familyIstiophoridae
- ›genusMakaira
- ›speciesMakaira nigricans
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderIstiophoriformes
- familyIstiophoridae
- genusMakaira
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- orderIstiophoriformes
- familyIstiophoridae
- genusMakaira
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