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SpeciesPerciformesGempylidae
Fish

🐟Escolar

Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (Smith, 1843)

異鱗蛇鯖，又名鱗網帶鰆，學名Lepidocybium flavobrunneum，中文俗稱油魚、玉梭魚，又名白玉豚，英文俗稱Escolar、Oilfish、Black Oilfish、rudderfish、white tuna，是輻鰭魚綱鱸形目帶鰆科異鱗蛇鯖屬的唯一物種。

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Also called
Lepidocybium flavobrunneum
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
45 kg
Body length
1.5 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Escolar

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

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

Body length
1.5 mrecord 2 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

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

Trophic level
4.34
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Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.34 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Volume l
45 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 Escolar yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyGempylidae
  5. ›genusLepidocybium
  6. ›speciesLepidocybium flavobrunneum
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. subclassNeopterygii
  3. orderAcanthomorphata
  4. genusLepidocybium
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderAcanthomorphata
  10. genusLepidocybium
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油魚 (zh), Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (es), Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (fr), Эсколар (ru), Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (ca), Escolar (de) … and 17 more languages
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