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Boga (Boops boops), franja marina Teno Rasca, Tenerife, España, 2022 01 08, DD 99🐟

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SpeciesPerciformesSparidae
Fish

🐟Boops boops

Boops boops (Linnaeus, 1758)

Бопс, или полосатик, или большеглазый боопс (лат. Boops boops) — вид лучепёрых рыб семейства спаровых.

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≈ 1/140th of your weight
Also called
Bogue, Bream, bogue
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2014.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.46 kg
Body length
0.2 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
11 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Boops boops

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

Body length
0.2 mrecord 0.4 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

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

Maximum lifespan
11 yearsmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Trophic level
2.79
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
omnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 2.79 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Volume l
0.5 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 Boops boops yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familySparidae
  5. ›genusBoops
  6. ›speciesBoops boops
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderAcanthomorphata
  3. orderSpariformes
  4. genusBoops
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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. orderSpariformes
  11. genusBoops
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In other languages
bogue (fr), Boga (es), Gelbstriemenbrasse (de), okseøyefisk (nb), Bokvis (nl), Boga-do-mar (pt) … and 22 more languages
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Boga (Boops boops), franja marina Teno Rasca, Tenerife, España, 2022 01 08, DD 99Boga (Boops boops), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2022 07 28, DD 98Boops boops 237020609
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