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SpeciesPerciformesTrichiuridae
Fish

🐟Black scabbardfish

Aphanopus carbo Lowe, 1839

Dolkfisk (Aphanopus carbo), en fisk i familjen hårstjärtfiskar som finns i Nordatlanten.

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≈ 1/15th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
4.23 kg
Body length
0.7 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Black scabbardfish

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
4.23 kgaverage
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Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female.

By sex

  • Female4.23 kgFishBasev25.04
Body length
0.7 mrecord 1.51 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

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

Trophic level
4.48
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.48 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
4.2 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 Black scabbardfish yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyTrichiuridae
  5. ›genusAphanopus
  6. ›speciesAphanopus carbo
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderAcanthomorphata
  3. familyTrichiuridae
  4. genusAphanopus
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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. familyTrichiuridae
  11. genusAphanopus
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In other languages
dolkfisk (nb), Peixe-espada-preto (pt), Schwarzer Degenfisch (de), Aphanopus carbo (fr), Aphanopus carbo (es), Aphanopus carbo (ca) … and 13 more languages
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