🐟Blue catfish
蓝鲶鱼（英语：blue catfish；学名：Ictalurus furcatus），又名长鳍真鮰，為北美鯰科真鮰屬的一種，是北美洲数量最多的一种鲶鱼。它主要分布在密苏里、俄亥俄、田纳西和阿肯色的密西西比河里。这些蓝鲶鱼被大量的引进到水库和河流中，如南卡罗来纳的马里恩湖的附湖——桑迪卡普尔湖、莫尔特里湖和弗吉尼亚的詹姆斯河，还有伊利诺斯培进的波尔顿湖，體長可達165公分，其息在水深、沙石底質的湖泊、溪流，雜食性，可做為食用魚或觀賞魚。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2013.
- Body mass
- 37 kg
- Body length
- 1.65 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 21 years
Everything we know about the Blue catfish
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass37 kgrecord 68 kg · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Body length1.65 mmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Maximum lifespan21 yearsrecord 21 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 level3.41FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.41 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l38 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 Blue catfish yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderSiluriformes
- ›familyIctaluridae
- ›genusIctalurus
- ›speciesIctalurus furcatus
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- suborderSiluroidei
- familyIctaluridae
- genusIctalurus
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- superorderCharaciphysae
- orderSiluriformes
- suborderSiluroidei
- familyIctaluridae
- genusIctalurus
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