🐟Giant Trevally
The giant trevally, also known as the lowly trevally, barrier trevally, giant kingfish, or ulua, is a species of large marine fish classified in the jack family, Carangidae. The giant trevally is distributed throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific region, with a range stretching from South Africa to Hawaii, including Japan in the north and Australia in the south.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 80 kg
- Body length
- 1 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Giant Trevally
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass80 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length1 mrecord 1.7 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Trophic level4.22FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.22 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansreports of ciguatera poisoningFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l80 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 Giant Trevally yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderPerciformes
- ›familyCarangidae
- ›genusCaranx
- ›speciesCaranx ignobilis
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
All 9 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
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