Molva dypterygia Blue ling

Molva dypterygia is commonly referred to as Blue ling. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

5079 

AphiaID:

126459 

Scientific:

Molva dypterygia 

German:

Blauleng 

English:

Blue Ling 

Category:

Codfishes 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Gadiformes (Order) > Lotidae (Family) > Molva (Genus) > dypterygia (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Pennant, ), 1784 

Occurrence:

Straße von Gibraltar, Russland, the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, Algeria, Canada Eastern Pacific, East-Atlantic Ocean, European Coasts, Greenland, Iceland, Morocco, Newfoundland, Northern Africa, Portugal, Scandinavia, Spain, the British Isles, the Faroe Islands, the Mediterranean Sea 

Sea depth:

150 - 1000 Meter 

Size:

up to 61.02" (155 cm) 

Weight:

30 kg 

Temperature:

41 °F - 73.4 °F (5°C - 23°C) 

Food:

Crabs, Crustaceans, Edible crab, Fish (little fishes), Krill, Rock shrimps, Schrimps 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Data deficient (DD) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Molva dypterygia
  Blauleng
• Molva macrophthalma
• 
  Molva molva
  Leng, Lengfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2013-01-28 10:01:21 

Last edit:

2013-01-28 10:01:21 

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