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Lates calcarifer, 2014 09 19a🐟

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SpeciesPerciformesLatidae
Fish

🐟Barramundi

Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1790)

De Barramundi (Lates calcarifer) is een straalvinnige vis uit de familie van reuzenbaarzen (Latidae), orde van baarsachtigen (Perciformes). De naam Barramundi is afgeleid van de Queensland-Aboriginal-taal uit het Rockhamptongebied en betekent 'grote schubben'.

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Measurements
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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
60 kg
Body length
1.5 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
35 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Barramundi

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

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

Body length
1.5 mrecord 2 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

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

Maximum lifespan
35 yearsmaximum recorded
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Trophic level
3.83
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.83 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Volume l
60 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 Barramundi yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyLatidae
  5. ›genusLates
  6. ›speciesLates calcarifer
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderAcanthomorphata
  3. familyCentropomidae
  4. genusLates
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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. familyCentropomidae
  11. genusLates
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尖吻鲈 (zh), Perca-gigante (pt), Barramundi (pl), Brochet de mer (fr), Lates calcarifer (es), ปลากะพงขาว (th) … and 18 more languages
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Lates calcarifer, 2014 09 19aBarramundi
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