Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 10 - 11; Dorsal soft rays (total): 19 - 23; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 8 - 10. Colour silvery, greenish, or bluish above, bright silvery to yellowish on belly. Lower fins mostly yellowish to dusky. Mouth terminal, moderately large and oblique. Chin without barbel but with 6 mental pores (median pair often set in a pit). Preopercle with few spines at angle. Anal second spine sharp, more than 2/3 length of first soft ray. Gas bladder with 2 chambers. Anterior chamber yoke-shaped without appendages, posterior chamber simple, carrot-shaped. Lapillus enlarged, about 1/2 the size of sagitta (Ref 51721).

Common Names

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Goldtail croaker , English , Global

Silver croaker , English , Global

Silver perch , English , Mexico

Silver perch , English , USA

Mamselle blanche , French , France

Mamselle blanche , French , Global

銀色貝氏石首魚 , Mandarin Chinese , China

银色贝氏石首鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Corvineta blanca , Spanish , Spain

Corvineta blanca , Spanish , Spain

Ronco amarillo , Spanish , Mexico

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Eupercaria/misc

Family: Sciaenidae

Genus: Bairdiella

Species: Bairdiella chrysoura (Lacepède, 1802)

Climate Zone

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Subtropical

Location

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Western Atlantic: New York to southern Florida in USA, and eastern and northern Gulf of Mexico to northern Mexico.

Biology

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Found in coastal waters over sandy and muddy bottoms. Moves to the nursery and feeding areas in estuaries during summer months and sometimes enters freshwaters. Feeds mainly on crustaceans, worms and occasionally fishes. Mostly used as bait.

Habitat

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freshwater