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SpeciesClupeiformesClupeidae
Fish

🐟Atlantic herring

Clupea harengus Linnaeus, 1758

大西洋鲱(学名:Clupea harengus)是地球上资源最丰富的鱼类之一,在大西洋的东西两部分都可以发现集成一大群的大西洋鲱。 成鱼可以长至45厘米长(大约18英寸), 重半公斤左右。它们以小型甲壳类动物、磷虾和小鱼为食,也是海豹、鲸、鳕鱼和其他大型肉食鱼类等天然掠食者的食物。 大西洋鲱很长时间以来是新英格兰和加拿大沿海省份经济的重要组成部分。这是因为大西洋鲱经常在相对近岸的海区聚集成海量的一大群,尤其是在缅因湾半封闭的冷水区和圣劳伦斯湾中。大西洋鲱鱼群经测量尺寸达到4立方千米,由大约40亿条鱼组成。

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Also called
Clupea harengus, Split, Herron, herring, Protestant, Herring, Red Herring, Sild, Melker, Mattie, Kipper, Bloater, Herning, Pickling, Pearl Essence, Bank Herring, Bismark Herring, Cleanplate Herring, Cut spiced Herring, Fall Herring, Golden Cure, Hern, Kipper Herring, Klondyked Herring, Labrador Herring, Matje Cured Herring, Mediterranean Cure, Mesh Herring, Milker Herring, Murman Herring, Mustard Herring, Newcastle Kipper, Norwegian Cured Herring, Norwegian Herring, Norwegian Milker, Norwegian Silver Herring, Norwegian Sloe, Oriental Cure, Pickled Herring, Sea Atlantic Herring, Sea Herring, Sea Stick, Shore Herring, Silver Cured Herring, Soused Herring, Split Cure Herring, Spring Herring, Sugar Cured Fish, Summer Herring, Whitebait, Yawling
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2010.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1.05 kg
Body length
0.3 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
22 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Atlantic herring

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

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

Body length
0.3 mrecord 0.45 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

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

Maximum lifespan
22 yearsrecord 25 years · FishBase
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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
3.38
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.38 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Volume l
1.1 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 Atlantic herring yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderClupeiformes
  4. ›familyClupeidae
  5. ›genusClupea
  6. ›speciesClupea harengus
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderClupeiformes
  3. suborderClupeoidei
  4. genusClupea
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderClupeiformes
  10. suborderClupeoidei
  11. genusClupea
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Atlantischer Hering (de), sild (nb), śledź oceaniczny (pl), Hareng (fr), Clupea harengus (es), silli (fi) … and 25 more languages
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