🐟Atlantic blue marlin
大西洋藍槍魚（學名：Makaira nigricans）是大西洋特有的一種旗魚，被IUCN列為次級保育類動物。牠們主要吃海面上多種的生物。牠們會用其槍來刺、傷害或殺死獵物，之後再回來享用。大西洋藍槍魚是出名供垂釣的魚，其肉質含有高脂肪，故具有很高的商業價值。 大西洋藍槍魚分佈在大西洋的熱帶及溫帶海域，但較多出沒於西部。牠們主要都會生活在海洋，遠離陸地。雌魚可以生長到比雄魚重4倍，達到540-1800公斤。除了人類外，牠們只有少數天敵，世界自然保護聯盟並未將牠們列為瀕危物種。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 94 kg
- Body length
- 2.9 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 28 years
Everything we know about the Atlantic blue marlin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass94 kgrecord 636 kg · FishBaseAnAgeOther figures ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
By sex
- Female820 kgFishBasev25.04
Body length2.9 mrecord 5 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
By sex
- Female5 mFishBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan28 yearsrecord 20 years · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic level4.49FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.49 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Volume l94 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 blue marlin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderPerciformes
- ›familyIstiophoridae
- ›genusMakaira
- ›speciesMakaira nigricans
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderIstiophoriformes
- familyIstiophoridae
- genusMakaira
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- orderIstiophoriformes
- familyIstiophoridae
- genusMakaira
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