🐟Iridescent shark
Pangasianodon hypophthalmus is een straalvinnige vissensoort uit de familie van de reuzenmeervallen (Pangasiidae). De vis komt oorspronkelijk voor in de rivieren de Menam en de Mekong in Zuidoost-Azië. De vis wordt tot 130 centimeter lang, en heeft donkergrijze tot zwarte vinnen. Jonge exemplaren hebben een iriserende regenboogglans, vandaar dat de Amerikanen deze vis regenbooghaai (iridescent shark) noemen. De soort is in andere rivieren uitgezet, veelal voor de visvangst van de lokale bevolking. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1878 door Sauvage.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2011.
- Body mass
- 44 kg
- Body length
- 1.3 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Iridescent shark
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass44 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length1.3 mmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic level3.12FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.12 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l44 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 Iridescent shark yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderSiluriformes
- ›familyPangasiidae
- ›genusPangasianodon
- ›speciesPangasianodon hypophthalmus
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderSiluriformes
- suborderSiluroidei
- familyPangasiidae
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- superorderCharaciphysae
- orderSiluriformes
- suborderSiluroidei
- familyPangasiidae
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