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Whitemouth Croaker

Micropogonias furnieri

Also known as: Golden Croaker, Hardhead, Mangrove Snapper, West Indian Croaker, West Indian Drum, White Croaker, Whitemouth Drummer, Yellow Croaker

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2021
Adult
@Ziggy · Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico · March 20141 / 6
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Overview

Found in schools over mud and sandy bottoms of estuaries and coastal waters.
Juveniles feed on benthic crustaceans and molluscs.
Widespread Western to Southwest Atlantic

Drums are named for the repetitive throbbing or drumming sounds they make by beating their abdominal muscles against the swim bladder.

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How to identify

Pattern
stripes

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Western Atlantic, Southwest Atlantic
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Found in schools over mud and sandy bottoms of estuaries and coastal waters.

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  • fishx6Top Contributor· 25 Apr 2014

    Your fish has been named, we asked an expert and this is what we came up with!

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Taxonomy

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classTeleostei
  4. orderEupercaria incertae sedis
  5. familySciaenidae
  6. genusMicropogonias
  7. speciesMicropogonias furnieri (Desmarest, 1823)

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More in the family

Drums-Croakers (Sciaenidae)