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Atractoscion
Sign in to saveAtractoscion is a genus of marine ray-finned fished belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. The fishes in this genus are found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilySciaenidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Sciaenidae
- Collections
- UCMP
- Recorded in
- Spain
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Sciaenidae
- Image
- Atractoscion nobilis mspc096.jpg
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- Atractoscion
- topic's main category
- Category:Atractoscion
- taxon common name
- Seabass
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Atractoscion is a genus of marine ray-finned fished belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. The fishes in this genus are found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
==Taxonomy== Atractoscion was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1862 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with Otolithus aequidens, a species described in 1830 by Georges Cuvier from the Cape of Good Hope, designated as its type species. This genus is classified in the family Sciaenidae which is placed within the suborder Sciaenoidei of the order Acanthuriformes in the 5th edition of Fishes of the World.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Atractoscion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.