Menticirrhus

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Menticirrhus
Temporal range: Late Miocene to Present [1]
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Menticirrhus americanus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acanthuriformes
Family: Sciaenidae
Genus: Menticirrhus
Gill, 1861 [2]
Type species
Perca alburnus
Linnaeus, 1766 [3]
Species

see text

Synonyms [3]

Menticirrhus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums or croakers. They are commonly known as kingcroakers or kingfish. These fish are found in the Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans.

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Taxonomy

Menticirrhus was first proposed as a genus in 1861 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with Perca alburnus, a species described by Linnaeus in 1763 from Charleston, as its only species and designated as its type species. [3] [4] This genus has been placed in the subfamily Sciaeninae by some workers, [5] but the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise subfamilies within the Sciaenidae which it places in the order Acanthuriformes. [6]

Etymology

Menticirrhus is a combination of mentum, meaning "chin", and cirrhus, which means barbel, an allusion to the single thick barbel on the chin. [7]

Species

Menticirrhus contains the following species: [8]

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Kingfish caught from the Great South Bay.

Characteristics

Menticirrhus kingfish have elongated bodies which have a rounded cross section and a flat underside. The head is long and low with a somewhat conical snout which protrudes past the horizontal mouth. There are slits and pores above the mouth with a short, stout barbel on the chin with a pore at its tip and a number of pores at its base. The preoperculum may be smooth or weakly serrated and the gill cover is incised at its angle. The dorsal fin is supported by between 10 and 13 flexible sins and between 19 and 27 soft rays while the anal fin has a single weak spine and 7 to 9 soft rays. The scales are small and ctenoid. [9] The largest species in the genus is the California kingcroaker (M. undulatus) which has a maximum published total length of 71 cm (28 in) and the smallest is the Paita kingcroaker (M. paitensis) which has a maximum published total length of 40 cm (16 in). [8]

Distribution

Menticirrhus fishes are found in the eastern Pacific between California and Peru and in the western Atlantic from Massachusetts in the north to northern Argentina. [10] [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
  2. ↑ Nicolas Bailly (2011). "Menticirrhus Gill, 1861". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 2012-03-06.
  3. 1 2 3 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Sciaenidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  4. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Menticirrhus". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  5. ↑ Kunio Sasaki (1989). "Phylogeny of the family Sciaenidae, with notes on its Zoogeography (Teleostei, Peciformes)" (PDF). Memoirs of the Faculty of Fishes Hokkaido University. 36 (1–2): 1–137.
  6. ↑ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 497–502. ISBN   978-1-118-34233-6.
  7. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (9 March 2023). "Series Eupercaria (Incertae sedis): Families Callanthidae, Centrogenyidae, Dinopercidae, Emmelichthyidae, Malacanthidae, Monodactylidae, Moronidae, Parascorpididae, Sciaenidae and Sillagidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  8. 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Menticirrhus". FishBase . February 2023 version.
  9. ↑ "Genus: Menticirrhus, Kingfish Croaker, King-Croakers". Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean online information system. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  10. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Menticirrhus undulatus". FishBase . February 2023 version.
  11. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Menticirrhus americanus". FishBase . February 2023 version.
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