🐟Humphead wrasse
Wargacz garbogłowy, nazywany również napoleonem lub chelinem napoleońskim (Cheilinus undulatus) – gatunek morskiej ryby z rodziny wargaczowatych.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 191 kg
- Body length
- 0.6 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 32 years
Everything we know about the Humphead wrasse
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass191 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length0.6 mrecord 2.29 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Maximum lifespan32 yearsmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic level3.99FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.99 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansreports of ciguatera poisoningFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l191 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 Humphead wrasse yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderPerciformes
- ›familyLabridae
- ›genusCheilinus
- ›speciesCheilinus undulatus
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- orderLabriformes
All 10 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- orderLabriformes
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