Description

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Eupercaria/misc

Family: Sciaenidae

Genus: Odontoscion

Species: Odontoscion eurymesops (Heller & Snodgrass, 1903)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Often occurs in large schools or loose aggregations above rocks, small boulder strewn slopes covered with leafy blade algae (Ref. 5227). Feeds mainly on zooplankton (Ref. 9118).

Habitat

associated