🐟Channel catfish
钳鱼（学名：Ictalurus punctatus）又名斑点叉尾鮰、美洲河鯰（英語：channel catfish），是北美洲主要的一种鲶鱼。它的官方产地为美国的密苏里州、爱荷华州、内布拉斯加州、堪萨斯州和田纳西州，它的俗称是“钳猫（channel cat）”。在美国，钳鱼是当地人们最喜爱捕捉的一种鱼，每年约有800万人捕捉它，因而其在水产业的知名度很大。钳鱼在中国大陆引进之后也称为清江鱼。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2013.
- Body mass
- 14 kg
- Body length
- 0.57 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 16 years
Everything we know about the Channel catfish
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass14 kgrecord 26 kg · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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Body length0.57 mrecord 1.32 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Maximum lifespan16 yearsrecord 24 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 level4.16FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.16 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humanspotential pestFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l14 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 Channel catfish yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderSiluriformes
- ›familyIctaluridae
- ›genusIctalurus
- ›speciesIctalurus punctatus
- 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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