🐟Hydrocynus goliath
巨狗脂鯉（学名：Hydrocynus goliath）也称巨虎鱼（英語：goliath tigerfish），是輻鰭魚綱脂鯉目脂鯉亞目鮭脂鯉科的其中一種熱帶淡水魚，分布於非洲剛果河、盧阿拉巴河、坦干伊喀湖、Upemba湖流域，體長可達133公分，棲息在底中層水域，以魚類等為食，生活習性不明，可作為食用魚。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 50 kg
- Body length
- 1.33 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Hydrocynus goliath
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass50 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Body length1.33 mmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic level3.79FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.79 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l50 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 Hydrocynus goliath yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderCharaciformes
- ›familyAlestidae
- ›genusHydrocynus
- ›speciesHydrocynus goliath
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- superorderCharaciphysae
- orderCharaciformes
- genusHydrocynus
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- superorderCharaciphysae
- orderCharaciformes
- genusHydrocynus
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