Menticirrhus nasus (Gunther 1868)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Sciaenidae
- genus
- Menticirrhus
- species
- Menticirrhus nasus
description
Highfin King Croaker or Highfin Kingfish. To 50 cm (19.7 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). Laguna de San Ignacio, southern Baja California (De La Cruz-Agüero and Cota-Gómez 1998) into the Gulf of California (Chao in Fischer et al. 1995) to Caleta La Cruz, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998). Estuaries and nearshore waters (Allen and Robertson 1994); depth: 1 – 146 m (3 – 479 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Zeballos Flor et al. 1998).
Name
- Homonyms
- Menticirrhus nasus (Gunther 1868)