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🐟Arapaima gigas
Arapaima (Arapaima gigas) är en art i familjen Arapaimidae och en av de största sötvattenfiskarna i världen. Obekräftade uppgifter finns om längder på upp till 4,5 meter och en vikt på upp emot 200 kilogram, men detta har ifrågasatts. Som en av de mest eftertraktade fiskarna i Sydamerika fiskas den intensivt för att exporteras, och som en konsekvens av detta är det numera ovanligt att exemplar med en längd på mer än 2 meter fångas. Arapaiman listades en längre tid som enda art i släktet Arapaima och nyare avhandlingar delar populationen i fyra arter.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 1996.
- Body mass
- 200 kg
- Body length
- 2 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Arapaima gigas
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass200 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length2 mrecord 4.5 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Trophic level3.46FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.46 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l200 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 Arapaima gigas yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderOsteoglossiformes
- ›familyArapaimidae
- ›genusArapaima
- ›speciesArapaima gigas
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderOsteoglossiformes
- familyOsteoglossidae
- genusArapaima
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderOsteoglossiformes
- familyOsteoglossidae
- genusArapaima
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