🐟Atlantic cod
De kabeljauw (Gadus morhua) is een vissoort uit de familie van de kabeljauwen (Gadidae) en de orde van de kabeljauwachtigen (Gadiformes), die voorkomt in de Atlantische Oceaan. De soort komt ook voor in de Noordzee en is economisch gezien een belangrijke soort. Zowel door beroepsvissers als door sportvissers wordt er veel op gevist.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 1996.
- Body mass
- 53 kg
- Body length
- 1 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 25 years
Everything we know about the Atlantic cod
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass53 kgrecord 96 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 mrecord 2 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Maximum lifespan25 yearsrecord 25 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 level4.09FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.09 (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 l53 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 cod yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- orderGadiformes
All 10 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- orderGadiformes
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