🐟Atlantic croaker
Micropogonias undulatus (Atlantic croaker pour les anglophones) est une espèce de poissons marins de la famille des Sciaenidae, étroitement liée à Pogonias cromis, Bairdiella chrysoura, Leiostomus xanthurus, Sciaenops ocellatus ((en) Sciaenops ocellatus), Cynoscion nebulosus et Cynoscion regalis. Ce poisson est communément trouvé dans les estuaires américains atlantiques ; du Massachusetts au Golfe du Mexique.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
- Body mass
- 1.42 kg
- Body length
- 0.3 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 5 years
Everything we know about the Atlantic croaker
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1.42 kgrecord 2.58 kg · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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Body length0.3 mrecord 0.55 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Maximum lifespan5 yearsrecord 5 years · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic level4FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l1.4 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Atlantic croaker yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderPerciformes
- ›familySciaenidae
- ›genusMicropogonias
- ›speciesMicropogonias undulatus
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- familySciaenidae
- genusMicropogonias
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- familySciaenidae
- genusMicropogonias
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