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Goldfish3🐟

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SpeciesCypriniformesCyprinidae
Fish

🐟Goldfish

Carassius auratus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Guldfisk (Carassius auratus) är en söt- till brackvattensfisk som tillhör familjen karpfiskar. Guldfisk är en populär prydnadsfisk och hålls ofta i trädgårdsdammar och som akvariefisk. Den har sitt ursprung i Östasien, där karpfiskar under lång tid förekommit i fiskodling. Guldfisk domesticerades först i Kina för över 1 000 år sedan och började genom selektiv avel på guldfärgade individer (guldkarp) odlas som prydnadsfisk. En mängd odlingsvarianter med varierande form och färg har sedan dess avlats fram och idag finns över 300 odlingsvarianter.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/39th of your weight
Also called
Gold carp, Carassin
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2013.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
1.6 kg
Body length
0.1 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
41 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Goldfish

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

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

Body length
0.1 mrecord 0.48 m · FishBasetypical adult
FishBase
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Record: largest individual on record

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

Maximum lifespan
41 yearsrecord 41 years · FishBase
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
2.78
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
omnivoreaverage
Details ↓

From trophic level 2.78 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

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

Volume l
1.6 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 Goldfish yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderCypriniformes
  4. ›familyCyprinidae
  5. ›genusCarassius
  6. ›speciesCarassius auratus
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. superorderCypriniphysae
  3. orderCypriniformes
  4. suborderCyprinoidei
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. superorderCypriniphysae
  10. orderCypriniformes
  11. suborderCyprinoidei
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guldfisk (da), Goldfisch (de), золотая рыбка (ru), poisson rouge (fr), gullfisk (nb), سمك ذهبي (ar) … and 28 more languages
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