🐟Atlantic goliath grouper
Goliatgrouper (Epinephelus itajara) är en saltvattensfisk som finns i västra och östra Atlanten samt östra Stilla havet. Den är den största arten i familjen havsabborrfiskar.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 455 kg
- Body length
- 1.5 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 37 years
Everything we know about the Atlantic goliath grouper
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass455 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length1.5 mrecord 2.5 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Maximum lifespan37 yearsmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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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 humanstraumatogenicFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l455 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 Atlantic goliath grouper yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderPerciformes
- ›familySerranidae
- ›genusEpinephelus
- ›speciesEpinephelus itajara
- 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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